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    1. Ray Radlein‏ @Radlein 28 May 2019

      I came to the conclusion a while back that reflexive contrarianism is a disease and an addiction, that can start with reasonable skepticism and gradually lead its victim into the (ironically unquestioning) holding of truly appalling and evil beliefs.

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    2. Matt McIrvin‏ @mattmcirvin 28 May 2019
      Replying to @Radlein

      The science-fiction writer James P. Hogan fell deep into this hole. Wrote a nonfiction book called "Kicking the Sacred Cow" that was basically pushing a different completely daft contrarian hypothesis in every chapter. Then got sucked into the Holocaust-denial world.

      2 replies 2 retweets 28 likes
    3. Ray Radlein‏ @Radlein 28 May 2019
      Replying to @mattmcirvin

      Wow. That's... ugh.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    4. Matt McIrvin‏ @mattmcirvin 28 May 2019
      Replying to @Radlein

      He was probably inspired by John W. Campbell, Jr., who never met a bizarre contrarian idea he didn't like. Fans constantly used the "well, he was just asking questions, he made you think" dodge, but some of Campbell's stuff was genuinely harmful (Dianetics, racism).

      2 replies 1 retweet 28 likes
    5. Matt McIrvin‏ @mattmcirvin 28 May 2019
      Replying to @mattmcirvin @Radlein

      There was historically a lot of this going around the science-fiction community, often coming from people with engineering or software backgrounds and tied up with adulation of engineers. There's something about that that favors runaway scientific contrarianism.

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    6. Matt McIrvin‏ @mattmcirvin 28 May 2019
      Replying to @mattmcirvin @Radlein

      Bruce Salem, James Nicoll and others have written about it... one theory is that it's a result of a little learning being dangerous: these people have just enough technical knowledge to consider themselves scientific experts, but not enough to critique their own ideas.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 May 2019
      Replying to @mattmcirvin @Radlein

      I think the problem is the way engineers are trained (results oriented and non-theoretically) that makes them vulnerable to crackpottery.

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        1. Will o' the Wisse‏ @wissewords 28 May 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattmcirvin @Radlein

          Being smart enough to see through lies to children, but not smart enough to recognise your own limitations.

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        1. Matt McIrvin‏ @mattmcirvin 29 May 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @Radlein

          They're encouraged to see any problem as technically solvable, which is a good motivator for a technologist, but can make them suspicious of any theory that sets limits (relativity) or emphasizes negative repercussions of technology (climate science).

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