As a general rule, you should get more skeptical around any information that people feel strongly about - including information that comes from academia. The more politically sensitive something is, the less you should easily trust anything around it.
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Yes that's exactly what I meant to say good job youve managed to tease out my actual intent perfectly
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Snide jokes aside: not sure passionate/dispassionate interest is even a thing you can measure? Oh, the doc cares about COVID, but what’s the Care : Skepticism ratio were aiming for?
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I find that it's the more emotionally negative stories that are the least useful, from an intellectual perspective, at least.
(Negative emotional stories are good for finding those who want something similar. Positive emotional stories are more useful for understanding life.)
