Bonus Sample: Rational Emotions & Poetic Science
Conspirituality
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Is the Scientific Expert More Like Our World Views?
In the absence of our own scientific experts, we choose to trust culturally conditioned markers of legitimacy in a way that is more emotional than rational. Both types of world view can have equally dispassionate claims or be expressed with equally strong emotions for several reasons. Proponents of vaccines or climate science are just as emotionally driven in our convictions and just as dismissive of counter arguments as anti facors and climate deniers are. We are just typically relying on better models of reality.
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