Zeej comments on Rationality Quotes February 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zeej 13 February 2012 06:35:37PM *  7 points [-]

Title should read: "Making Stuff Up Is Easy, Overcoming Cognitive Biases and Discovering How Things Really Work Is Difficult: An Exercise in the Obvious"

Reddit user sciencecomic, in response to a headline reading "'Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not'. Emory philosopher Robert McCauley suggests that science is more fragile than we think while religion more resilient – all for reasons coming back to humans' cognitive processes."

Comment author: thomblake 13 February 2012 08:41:05PM 2 points [-]

You should include a link.

Comment author: Zeej 14 February 2012 03:41:24AM 0 points [-]

Done.