Sam Harris' Destructive IQ Pseudoscience
November 6, 2017
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as posted by the channelIn this 'The Michael Brooks Show' clip, Sam Harris pushes pseudoscience because he's a pseudointellectual.
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"I’m not mad at Sam Harris. I’m just enforcing the scientific principle without fear or favor. If you’re a medical doctor, we expect you to be up to date on your view of the body. A neurosurgeon who went about trepanning people for headaches would lose his license. Does Sam’s poor quality PhD free him for all time from updating his beliefs in light of evidence? Isn’t that what he wants from Christians and Muslims? Isn’t it reasonable to expect that as a public figure he practice what he preaches? And if Sam isn’t being scientific when he is attacking religion, then what is he doing? I think he’s rationalizing the prejudices of his W.E.I.R.D. culture and blindly following cultural intuitions he picked up from his family. In that sense, he’s no different than most people. That however isn’t what science is about."*
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