[SEQ RERUN] Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary

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Today's post, Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary was originally published on 20 January 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals are more worthy of trust than what you detect with your own ears and eyes.

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Today's post, Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary was originally published on 20 January 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals are more worthy of trust than what you detect with your own ears and eyes.

Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).

I wonder what the base rate for insanity/fullblown visual hallucinations/etc. is?

And come to think of it, it's not necessarily what you perceive, but what you emit from other people's perspective, so you'd have to add up the base rates of things like Anton's syndrome as well.