[ExI] trutherism: was RE: Social aim for Transhumanism: Betterthinking about issues

[moulton at moulton.com]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 16:39 -0700, samantha wrote:
Or at least slowing down a possible tirade from all sides and opinions. 
> :)  But bringing up the woo-woo term was not called for imho at this point.
 

In my message I did not say that the term woo woo applied to any of the positions which had been stated.  When I first composed that message I did have a term which would have referenced one "side" of the discussion and I took it out and put it woo woo as a non-specific term since in the past I have seen both sides make wild accusations about what happened as well as other participants.  Having both sides of a discussion calling each other crazy and deluded does not get us very far.  Fortunately on this list we have avoided some of the worst aspects of this.

I do have a personal opinion on all of the topic of World Trade Center but I am not going to state it at this time since I think that would derail the point that I am trying to make.  And I think my second and third items on the list apply to the majority of things which come up on this list.

On the general topic of cognition I recently started looking at a the following short summary of Cognitive Biases and while I have not reviewed it in depth the first couple of pages look fairly good:
http://www.scribd.com/documents/30548590/Cognitive-Biases-A-Visual-Study-Guide-by-the-Royal-Society-of-Account-Planning
or
http://bit.ly/cnsEYZ

Fred