FiftyTwo comments on How to Draw Conclusions Like Sherlock Holmes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 27 December 2011 09:06:56PM *  3 points [-]

To be fair, believing in supernatural phenomena based on seemingly good photographic evidence rather than on the basis of faith is at least a step in the right direction. But refusing to examine the flaws in the evidence is the problem, good example of motivated cognition there.