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Comment author: MrMind 27 May 2015 09:59:59AM 0 points [-]

Ideas that retain their convincingness in the long term do so not by being especially rigorously argued or supported by solid evidence, but by constituting a large enough, coherent enough story to crowd out influence from day to day experience

I think religions fit the bill pretty nicely.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 27 May 2015 09:14:01PM 0 points [-]

I think religions fit the bill pretty nicely.

I think pop science does as well.

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