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Neither does prom advocate that. He just said existing research is mostly wrong. That's not defeatist, that's realist.


That's not actually what he said.

I maintain that there's a meaningful difference between "often wrong" and "almost all" wrong and "assume all claims are bogus" and "view claims skeptically." One approach is a license to intellectual laziness (defeatist) and the other requires effort but can reap benefits.




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