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Science of the Gaps | Luke Smith

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Science is truly amazing, especially when we imagine most of it...

Mainstream science is overrated. Most of the reason it feels so effective and all-explaining is a cognitive illusion. Most people overestimate how solvent scientific consensus actually is. I saw Joe Rogan's recent interview of Mel Gibson. Gibson said that he was a creationist and didn't believe in evolution. Joe pushed back a bit, saying that mainstream science had found remnants of putatively proto-humans. Here is a snippet of Mel's response and the back and forth: Mel: Yeah maybe they were monkeys I don't know, you know. Joe: There was, they're similar to us just not where we are, they're on

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