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Manfred comments on How to Draw Conclusions Like Sherlock Holmes - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 27 December 2011 05:26:50PM 4 points [-]

However popular spiritualism was, there was plenty of evidence against it by 1920, and many people did indeed reject it. Thus demonstrating that they were greater rationalists, at least in this area, than Arthur Conan Doyle.