outlier comments on (Philosophical) Disagreements are not Rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: outlier 02 June 2011 09:09:19AM 2 points [-]

I suspect it's the same for scientists for controversial topics. But discussing controversial topics is not science. Coming up with a way to verify a claim is. In general personality must be correlated with opinion (or at least that's my intuition :)).