Skeptical Zen 103: merely wrong
Idiots! Morons! Sheeple! How can they think that?! Are they stupid? Those dipshits!
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Skeptical Zen 102: pattern matching
Human brains are build for pattern matching. Suppose your brains often sees that A and B occur together. So when it detects A, it will expect that B will be there too.
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Skeptical Zen 101
I've been familiar with Hanlon's razor in one form or another for many years. Basically:
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Fundamental attribution error
Have you ever gone to a grocery store the day before a big winter storm is supposed to hit? Did you see all those idiots shopping in a panic? Some are even picking up three loaves of bread and two gallons of milk! I mean come on! It's not like this is the end of the world! You live in a major metropolitan area: You don't need to stock up and go into survival mode.
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Plural pronouns and group identifiers, part 1
Several years ago, a friend updated his Facebook status with a link to a news article about how some group of Muslims was offended by being portrayed badly in media or something similar. My friend's comment on the story was very close to: "When they start worrying about offending us by crashing planes into buildings, then we can start worrying about offending them."
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