
326. Naomi Oreskes — The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
The Michael Shermer Show
Why Intelligent Scientists Don't Suffer From Motivated Reasoning
I think ideology trumps rationality or intelligence, in the sense that some of Dan Kahan's research on how people reason about problems. So if anything, intelligent, rational people are better able to rationalize what they want to be true for some other reason. And I do think this goes a long way to explain it like remember that book what happened to Kansas. People are not voting their self interests. You would think they would selfishly vote for whichever party is going to give them what they want for their personal lives but they don't sometimes faith and flag and family.
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