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Part one is about how science works even when the public thinks it doesn't. Part two will certainly ruffle some feathers by offering a reason- and science-based perspective on issues where political correctness has gone awry. Part three provides some data-driven advice for your health and well-being. Part four looks at human behavior and how we can better navigate our social worlds. In part five we put on our skeptical goggles and critically examine a few commonly-held beliefs. In the final section, we look at a few ways how we all can make the world a better place.
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From a logic perspective, a person holding a view that is contradictory to everyone else's doesn't have any bearing on whether or not that view is correct. But, to assume it does is a logical fallacy. To say that someone is inherently correct for having an outlying view would be the galileo fallacy and to say that having the outlying view makes someone inherently incorrect is the gadarene swine fallacy . The example here sounds like it's supposed to be a joke, but treating it as serious, I think Hodja is making a factual error by not realizing that his job, as a rider, is to mount the donkey in a direction dictated by the donkey's body. But, maybe there is an alternate explanation, like that he needs to use something like a step ladder to mount his donkey, and the donkey was facing the wrong way in relation to the ladder when he got on. |
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