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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 97

Don’t believe it just because you want to

I have often wondered why some people passionately believe in conspiracy theories that really don’t stand up to serious inspection – or in many cases don’t stand up to the most cursory investigation. Take flat-earthers for example. They have to tie the facts in knots to justify their beliefs, postulating any number of lies and conspiracies in order to shoehorn their theory into a remotely sustainable argument.

You may well be aware of Occam’s razor, a strangely named scientific ‘law’ which states that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. For conspiracy theorists of all kinds, however, the explanation can never be simple. Partly because if it were it would probably be true, but ...

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ISBN: 9781292263823