If so, then Salon's editors and those readers are concerned with something other than truth, and maybe Gleb_Tsipursky should feel a little icky about being associated with them. None of that, though, is any kind of justification for the original claim that GT's article was engaging in Bulverism and therefore irrational.
If so, then Salon's editors and those readers are concerned with something other than truth, and maybe Gleb_Tsipursky should feel a little icky about being associated with them.
There are very few people who are just concerned with truth and don't have any other interests.
Given that Gleb speaks of mindkillers in the title of this question he's also well aware that tribal loyalities factor into equation.
The whole point of his article is that the media isn't full of Trump stories because of a desire to inform but because that's a way to drive attention and have engaging stories that readers want to read.
As part of my broader project of promoting rationality to a wide audience , I published an article in Salon entitled "Get Donald Trump out of my brain: The neuroscience that explains why he’s running away with the GOP." I'd welcome your thoughts on this article itself, and also meta-comments on the strategy of using mindkillers such as politics to raise the sanity waterline by smuggling in rationality memes into such popular and populist venues.