gwern comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

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Comment author: gwern 25 October 2014 06:55:22PM *  1 point [-]

Mainstream: 'correlation=causation' (almost all of nutrition research); contrarian: 'correlation!=causation' (Taubes); meta-contrarian: 'ah, but really, correlation~=causation!'