“Here is the short version of the Kool-Aid Fallacy: Cult … therefore Jim Jones … therefore mass suicide … therefore Kool-Aid. It’s astonishing how much of social media now revolves around simple word association sequences. Absolutely no thought goes into anything. No one ever delivers an actual argument. If they ever do attempt an argument, their punctuation, spelling, grammar, logic and general education are not up to the task, and soon dissolve into meaningless mush. But usually they just hurry on to the insults and ad hominem attacks, which is the part they love. Before long, the Kool-Aid fallacy is eagerly applied. Every argument should have a Dunning-Kruger quotient associated with it. Most people are 100% on the Dunning-Kruger scale. They imagine themselves geniuses, and geniuses dunces. As ever, they have inverted reality.”
― Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
― Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
“Would you enthusiastically recommend that a friend purchase something you'd never tested yourself? Probably not. But you may be unwittingly doing this with information every day.”
― Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
― Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no-one was listening, everything must be said again.”
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“When you tell people the truth, they are not ready to hear. They overlook what you say, and they look at you personally, trying to find the mistakes you did. So they can question your behavior to ignore the truth.”
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“Many choose ignorance because ignorance is easy and it often holds no responsibility. Intelligence or knowing a thing on the other hand gives a person self-responsibility to put his or her knowledge into action; and many times leaves a person with a conscious guilt when their knowledge is not applied.”
― True Blue
― True Blue
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