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Interview with Virginia Heffernan on Edge, the dangers of Scientism, & Culture Wars

Decoding the Gurus

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My Best Thinking Got Me Here

i think we're agreed on a lot of things, i don't know why people became so upset among the specific lines they're upset along. There's a kind of expression in a its anonymous, that my best thinking got me here. Maybe if you're at a place where many of these gurus are, maybe their best thinking was not good enough. I kept people asking me, have you seen the letter article in the lancet about mya carditis? And a, that's the ronk. That is not what a goroo would say. But it does seem, sadly, for those seeking a real adronalin rush from intellectual life, really intellectual honesty looks

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