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Comment author: Nornagest 09 September 2013 06:01:02PM 12 points [-]

At least at my college, liberal arts methods seemed better than STEM at presenting alternate theories but much worse at providing the tools to filter them or evaluate their plausibility. I'm not sure the gains from the former outweigh the losses from the latter.