johnlawrenceaspden comments on Belief as Attire - Less Wrong
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Up to and including my belief that the scientific method is the best approach to understanding the world?
Absolutely, yes. No question that part of the reason we believe that is in order to identify with our tribe. I personally am prepared to reduce it by three orders of magnitude, from 1-epsilon to 1-1000*epsilon.