Jayson_Virissimo comments on Recommended reading: George Orwell on knowledge from authority - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 05 August 2009 11:25:05PM *  8 points [-]

It is conventional wisdom that the conventional wisdom in the Middle Ages was that the world was flat. Your conclusion is right for the wrong reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth