I swear the UFO is coming any minute - by Adam Mastroianni
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Links 'n' updates
photo cred: my dad This is the quarterly links ‘n’ updates post, a selection of things I’ve been reading and doing for the past few months. First up, a series of unfortunate events in science: When Prophecy Fails is supposed to be a classic case study of cognitive dissonance: a UFO cult predicts an apocalypse, and when the world doesn’t end, they double down and start proselytizing even harder: “I swear the UFO is coming any minute!” A new paper finds a different story in the archives of the lead author, Leon Festinger. Up to half of the attendees at cult meetings may have been…
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