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Most people dont believe in their scientific and political views because they have reached those views through a complex analysis, but rather because the rest of the community the person is part of believes in said views.
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...because someone or some people reached their scientific and political views through complex analysis.
Everyone isn't meant to be the intelligentsia.
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wrong, they think their views are valid because they have been fed only 1 side of the argument by their in-group
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>>3118280
>...because someone or some people reached their scientific and political views through complex analysis.
Why do you suppose this is the origin of a group's beliefs, rather than self interest or disinformation?
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>>3118288
perhaps you could become part of academia yourself and analyze their methods?
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>>3118288
Because the intellectual foundation work of any movement takes on the role of and becomes part of its intelligentsia, even if they don't wear tweed jackets with leather elbow patches.
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>>3118264
People believe the things they like, simple as that. Barely anyone, possibly no-one, believes things because they've honestly examined as much data as they can and come to an objective conclusion, not least because the amount of research you would have to do on every single trivial thing would be totally impossible to carry out.
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