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Lumifer comments on Using Bayes to dismiss fringe phenomena - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 October 2014 08:05:35PM 1 point [-]

As a heuristic, I suspect ignoring things ignored by most scientists will actually work pretty well for you.

There is an interesting exception -- if you are scientist yourself.