MichaelHoward comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2009 10:01PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 22 December 2009 03:14:37AM *  2 points [-]

Maybe Joe Nickell is a better representative of the skeptic community, then?

Maybe we could agree that belief in too many of these probably means you're crazy? ;)

Comment author: MichaelHoward 22 December 2009 05:34:49PM 7 points [-]

I see it lists memetics, hypnosis and subliminal perception as pseudoscience. I'd put >50% on each of these being a real phenomenon.

I think for areas like these we should distinguish between believing a popular myth (eg. Hypnotized assassins, James Vicary's "Eat Popcorn") versus believing the phenomenon exists at all.

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 December 2009 06:58:09PM -1 points [-]

Well, that's why I added the qualifier "too many".