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RE: "Scrutiny Of Knowledge" Series-Introduction

I agree with you regarding legalising weed. Or at the very least decriminalising it. However on...

Truth is not what you believe or want it to be. It is something beyond our beliefs, something we can’t influence on, but just accept.

...I take issue.

Facts that are testable are scientific truth. But some truth(s) can be intensely personal and one person's immutable truth, another's fallacy. That happens in academe, too, even where mechanisms like peer review have been/are applied. Look at the Flat Earthers and the HIV/AIDS detractors. Not to mention fundamentatlists - at whatever end of the spectrum. Fanatics.

No matter, that's just me and semantics. I look forward to your series @psyceratopsb

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There is no way we can put fundamentalism and knowledge in same basket. I haven't seen anyone with enough knowledge to be fundamentalist.

None of flat earthers does know basic scientific principles like carbon dating for example. More so, there is correlation between conspiracy theories and ignorance

Taken together, Van Prooijen said the results suggest that “the relationship between education and belief in conspiracy theories cannot be reduced to a single psychological mechanism but is the product of the complex interplay of multiple psychological processes.”

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I agree. And they feed their fanaticism by ignoring and pooh poohing facts in favour of their "truth"

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