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Daily Archives: August 16, 2025
Cognitive Science and the Social: A Primer
ChatGPT gave me the juiciest bits from this 2018 book: Reductionism critique – Turner jabs at the enthusiasm for explaining social life in purely cognitive/neural terms, noting how easily “cognitive” talk reifies the brain into an autonomous agent. He hints … Continue reading
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Megyn Kelly on Russiagate and the New York Times
Megyn: When I woke up Wednesday morning and checked my podcast feed, I saw the New York Times’s The Daily Podcast, which I often listen to, and they had finally gotten around to covering all of the Russiagate revelations that … Continue reading
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Why Do Elite News Operations Sound So Dumb So Often?
I notice that the high-brow MSM is singing from the same hymnal with regard to Trump’s summit with Putin. Peter Baker of the New York Times: Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions The net … Continue reading
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The most powerful systems of epistemic closure in America today
Written with ChatGPT: Epistemic closure = when a community defines what can and cannot be questioned, and enforces consensus not through argument but by gatekeeping who counts as credible. Stephen P. Turner’s point is that closure is inevitable; the question … Continue reading
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Stephen Turner On The Bell Curve
In his 2013 book The Politics of Expertise, Stephen Turner wrote: Research on the genetic background of criminals has been denounced as “racist” and government agencies have been intimidated into withdrawing support. Studies of race and intelligence, similarly, have been … Continue reading
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