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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Tenacious Teleological Tendencies: Even Scholars exhibit Fallacious Thinking
<p>Matthew Hutson, author of <em>The <a style="color: #693;" href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594630879/?tag=mystc-20" target="_blank">7 Laws of Magical Thinking</a>, </em>relates a recent study that shows "80 scholars in chemistry, geoscience, and physics from universities including Harvard, Brown, and MIT" made teleological fallacies or errors in critical thinking 29% of the time when rushed, showing that the Human animal is hard-wired to reverse-engineer is from ought.</p><p>Read it @ <a href="http://mys.tc/2k9">The Huffington Post</a>.</p>
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