JoshuaZ comments on Vote Qualifications, Not Issues - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 27 September 2010 06:37:42AM *  28 points [-]

OK, but apart from Marxism, nuclear power, coercive eugenics, Christianity, psychoanalysis, and the respective importance of nature and nurture - when has the intellectual establishment ever been an unreliable guide to finding truth?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 27 September 2010 01:27:30PM 4 points [-]

Haha, ok point taken. I'm clearly wrong on this and there are a lot of examples. (At this point I'm also reminded of this Monty Python sketch although this is sort of the inverse).