Comment by BIbster on Rationality Quotes September 2013 · 2013-09-24T09:53:11.871Z · LW · GW

There are plenty of New Age people who seriously believe that the world works that way.

Or find it a reasonable / plausible theory... I'm married to one who evolved into one who reads that pseudo-science, instead of the Stephen Hawking she used to read 20 years ago...

Comment by BIbster on Rationality Quotes September 2013 · 2013-09-24T09:48:22.606Z · LW · GW

This is exactly why I (amongst many?) find it so hard to separate the good-stuff from the bad-stuff. It's the way the matter is brought to you, not the matter itself. Very thoughtful way of bringing it, as Army1987 says, references, anticipation of counterarguments etc.