Eugine_Nier comments on Do people think Less Wrong rationality is parochial? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 April 2012 08:57:10PM 6 points [-]

The problems of biases and perverse incentives pervading academia seem to be common knowledge around here.

This is common knowledge in the abstract, i.e., as long as one avoids applying this knowledge to adjust one's estimate of any particular "official position".

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 06 May 2012 09:36:17PM *  2 points [-]

Here is a counterexample from last Thursday. Here is a related one from last month. Both of these threads deal with reasons why a particular scientifically endorsed position may be wrong and how one might find out if they're right.