because the know they are wrong, and they have to protect their certainty to be right... That is not logic, but it is logical; for a brain which defend it's mental asset. http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20Slides%20for%20Posting_s.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20IOM%207p%20paper.pdf
Another need is to save victims (hero symptom). Sure we are not so different on that point... if we were rational, like Fat Tony of Taleb, we should just try to exploit the delusion of others, not try to educate them. Some work on that rational scenario. Best education is to screw the delusioned. 2013/6/27 John Berry <[email protected]> > Question: If skeptics really do not believe that something is possible, > then why must they fight so hard to defend reality from such an ill > conceived notion? > > Especially when something like cold fusion clearly could not be believed > for long if funded and embraced and it turned out to be entirely without > merit. > If they really believe it can not possibly have merit they should support > genuine research to answer the question once and for all, put the nail in > the coffin. > > The same could be said of most provable and falsifiable fringe subjects. > > Really the only way fringe notions remain plausible is because they have > not had enough investigation done to rule them out (or in). > > Therefore I do not really think that they are really so certain that it > isn't possible, at least subconsciously they are scared it is true. > > And they are fighting against that ever being proven. > At least that is my shot at it, but consciously and outwardly they are > very certain. > > John > >
