SilasBarta comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong
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(Sometimes I worry about the problem of how to extend the principle of charity to memes that cannot be safely taken literally.)
My answer is to judge them by the success of the actions they lead their practioners to do, not the falsifiable (or deliberately unfalsifiable) claims about reality they espouse.