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19 Post author: Coscott 03 October 2013 05:47AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 October 2013 02:37:59PM *  2 points [-]

While the people who would keep you on dry ice for two weeks obviously are.

Um... no? I seem to recall questioning that choice elsewhere on this thread and giving partial support to another (MichaelAnisimov) who claimed in colourful terms that it is a critical failure.

You are making classical crackpot excuses to handwave away expert knowledge.

No I'm not. I'm disagreeing with you about which people are experts. You are not an expert at choosing appropriate experts to defer to. You are appealing to absurdly irrelevant authority. "Expert" status and prestige is not transferable across domains. Or at least it shouldn't be for those who are interested in attaining accurate beliefs.

I don't think there is any productive way for us to continue this discussion.

Obviously not. Our disagreement about how how rational thinking works is rather fundamental, with all that entails.