I'm not a postrat, because I was never a Rationalist™. I kinda talked myself into proto-rationalist / Brightism back in the early 1980s, and then talked myself back out. So I'm kinda a post-pre-rat. In science fiction, we'd call that an alternate history. Am I an altrat ?
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3/ You take an youth by the hand, you explain the scientific method to him, and then you ... shuck and jive and slide sideways and explain that assertion X h̶a̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶r̶u̶e̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶f̶a̶l̶s̶e̶ smells bad & looks backwards...
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4/ ...and that youth will hate you as a hypocrite and a false prophet.
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