[lbo-talk] Re: Pathological Disbelief

[Joseph Wanzala]

Joseph Wanzala wrote:  "Pathological Disbelief" was the title of a lecture 
by 1973 Nobel Prize winner Brian D. Josephson, who teaches physics at the 
University of Cambridge, delivered at the 2004 Lindau meeting of Nobel 
Laureates. It describes a problem for science but also one for journalism 
which has over the past few decades moved from ubiquitous skepticism to 
ubiquitous condemnation of skepticism, most popularly expressed in labeling 
the skeptic a "conspiracy theorist."

Doug Wrote: "Pathological disbelief, meet pathological belief. You may sound 
like opposites, but you depend on each other, promote each other, thrive on 
each other. Ditto ubiquitous skepticism and ubiquitous credulity. Kinda like 
instrumental reason and New Age mysticism."

Joe W. wrote: You don't make any sense here.