Yvain comments on Where's Your Sense of Mystery? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2009 12:45AM

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Comment author: Yvain 26 April 2009 05:48:14PM 0 points [-]

Seems too potentially confounding. How would you distinguish between:

a) A person who knows a lot about biology wants to promote scientific values in order to become a more valuable person.

and b) A person who knows a lot about biology is smart enough not to believe pseudoscience involving biology?