Tiiba2 comments on "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tiiba2 04 September 2007 01:49:46AM 1 point [-]

Also, I mentioned "studies show" because it has been a curiosity stopper for me in the past. I read in a middle-school textbook that smoking a cigarette removes [x] days from your life expectancy. I took this as gospel, not caring WHICH studies show this, how they did their math, or whether there are other studies that show something else.

I still haven't researched this... But at least I realize that the question exists.

There, a REAL real-world example.