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Absolute Bankers

The Weekly Sceptic

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The Consequences of Conservatism

If one looks with a clear head and says things like no i don't need the safe and effective treatment for example actually you tend to be right. Once something is ossified into groupthink and has impure motivations that it's by nature bound to be false. "Even if we instinctively oppose whatever the kind of current thing is we're more likely to be right than people endorsing the current thing because the current thing is more often wrong than right"

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