I offered an explanation of mass psychology and its artificial selective pressures that also explains a lot of the irrationality among the pseudo-skeptics. Group selection is destructive to individual integrity. Eventually they're addicted to feeling power in numbers. Knowing the CF crowd is a minority, they get a dopamine rush by offering the kind of rhetorical devices that are basically the equivalent of human eusocial pheromone signalling to others of like hive-mind.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Indeed, it would be sinful for him to look through that telescope. >> > > Seems hunting cold fusioners has become a sport of some kind. Perhaps > there are anecdotes going around, and young, inexperienced physics students > want to be able to relive the experience or cut their teeth in "science > apologetics." One imagines someone with a lot of kit, jumping down into a > pit, and then bagging as many of the creatures as he can. Joshua Cude was > much better at it. I recall the day he stood in triumph on his mound of > slayed cold fusioners before he was sent away. > > Note to future science apologists: think through your arguments. Simply > replying quickly with the first thing that comes to your mind is not > impressive to anyone, even your peers. > > Eric > >
