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KurtOverley's avatar

Does “cognitive dissonance” actually exist? In my experience, people are capable of, and do, rationalize anything and everything.

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Patrick D. Caton's avatar

Insightful.

I remember the articles on her in 2014. Must confess, I had fallen a bit for the hype surrounding Theranos. I shared the Spectrum article (the IEEE is generally very accurate) with my teen daughter (she was thinking about becoming an engineer) and after a few minutes she said "Something's not right".

As for socialism, that's a cult of affirmation for the idle and inept. People want to fall for it because of motivated reasoning, much like Holmes.

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