teageegeepea comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

215 Post author: PhilGoetz 19 September 2009 09:05PM

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Comment author: teageegeepea 20 September 2009 03:05:18AM *  2 points [-]

Your point about educated fundamentalists has been made elsewhere.

Its possible that some of the geneticists merely think it is good to perform (to steal Hopefully Anonymous' favorite word) such a belief, perhaps for Straussian reasons. Hence the popularity of the replacement term among many scientists "population".