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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

TheWraith

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4. There is definitely a simpler way to summarize it.

Reply to HuckleB (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2012, 06:25 PM

Jul 2012

When people become attached to a belief to the point of seeing it as a "cause" and basically a matter of good versus evil, they will go to any length of mental gymnastics to throw out whatever might say otherwise. Since very few things in the world actually boil down to matters of good and evil, that's pretty much always the wrong reaction.

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Environmentalism and anti-science, how GMOs prove any ideological extremity leads to anti-science [View all] HuckleB Jun 2012 OP

I pretty much agree with him. JoeyT Jun 2012 #1

Meta conspiracy theorist Rainforestgoddess Jun 2012 #2

I'd see it as more a compound or exponential conspiracy theorist dmallind Jul 2012 #3

There is definitely a simpler way to summarize it. TheWraith Jul 2012 #4