Douglas_Knight comments on It's all in your head-land - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 24 July 2009 05:52:03AM 3 points [-]

For certain values of "knew".
Science has different epistemic standards.

The marketers knew it well enough that the scientists should have studied it. That they didn't was a serious epistemic failing; it's not clear that these different standards are better. Denying something on the grounds that you haven't studied it enough and refusing to study it is almost a fully general counterargument.