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I’ll try to get some reflective time on the above from you. Meanwhile, here’s something from the great givers of this forum space, Skeptic.com. Steven Pinker points out that we have just as strong of an innate sense of rational reasoning as we do for our sometimes troublesome agency detection. Rather than be paralyzed by the need to have all data and make perfect decisions, we sometimes use irrational thinking as a shortcut and this is a rational thing to do. I haven’t finished the article yet, but he does provide some ideas for how we move forward. Ideas that have experimental backing.

Why We are Not Living in a Post-Truth Era