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Those linked basic claims look well falsified already.
Wishful thinking is not THAT ubiquitous and unbeatable. Lots of people expect to die without an afterlife and wish it wasn't so.
Falsified all over the place, by most of the heuristics and biases literature for one, unless "that they can" is interpreted in a slippery fashion to describe whatever people in fact do.
This looks like it denies that people ever make real tradeoffs, but they do.
Got it in one.