[extropy-chat] Re: Robin Hanson on Cynicism

[Robin Hanson]

At 05:00 AM 9/23/2005, Brett Paatsch wrote:
>>...  And the situation is much worse on topics where there are 
>>certain positions that ordinary people typically *want* to believe 
>>(such as the health effectiveness of medicine).
>
>You have grounds for thinking ordinary people are mistaken
>as to the health effectiveness of medicine?

I know that you responded to a thread in the last month which started
from my posting this link: http://hanson.gmu.edu/feardie.pdf,
wherein I outline my grounds for so thinking.


Robin Hanson  rhanson at gmu.edu  http://hanson.gmu.edu
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