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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Neil Thompson  🇿🇦

    Likely to be wrong even more than that. There is often only one right answer to things like "How do we prevent the spread of infection?" and many, many wrong ones including self-flagellation, bleeding people, wafting nice smells about, killing witches & persecuting the Jews.https://twitter.com/albiorixza/status/1052570100006572034 …

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    Neil Thompson  🇿🇦 @albiorixza
    Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose
    I suppose one could always toss a coin, but the fact that one is going to be wrong 50% of the time on average suggests that it is no basis for a system of decision-making.
    7:45 AM - 17 Oct 2018
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    • Yossi Preminger Vienn Peridot Trumpet of Virtue Alexis John of Salisbury, d.1180 AD Sery Volk spirit_of_negation Neil Thompson 🇿🇦 No Pigs
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      2. אריק שודי‏ @eschudy Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Im not judgy. I'm ok with self flaggelation. Especially for the ones blaming us Jews.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17
        Replying to @eschudy

        Those things tended to go together!

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      4. אריק שודי‏ @eschudy Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        No one expects the Inquisition!

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      1. steven isle‏ @damnthatcursor Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It’s the: ‘It worked for me’, ‘I’ll keep an open mind’, ‘science doesn’t know everything’ brigade who really irk me. They just cannot fathom why scientific methodology works best.

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      1. Carl Kenner  ❎‏ @CarlKenner Oct 17
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        That last "wrong" answer might actually work.

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      1. Clark H‏ @Clarksterh Oct 17
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        I’d suggest it is worse than just ‘you’re more likely to be wrong than right bc there are more wrong solutions’. Most wrong solutions cause harm. True for new drugs in the biotech industry, and probably true for new policies without rigorous data and studies behind them.

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