Krugman being Krugman

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

"There's the great line, of course, about how his "lived experience" (see? I told you, he's doing empirical work!) confirms that motivated cognition "is not, in fact, symmetric between liberals and conservatives.

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That Krugman is too thick to see that one can't infer anything about the quality of partisans' reasoning from the truth or falsity of their beliefs is ... another element of Krugman's proof that ideological reasoning is symmetric across right and left!"

Comments

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

No, it's merely the scientific consensus. I know the European Union is terrible on this issue.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Just like it is scientific consensus that necessary safeguards remain in place.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

"Necessary safeguards," of course, do not encompass widespread bans based on false claims of safety.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I'm from the UK...we're not quite as Luddite here: nevertheless, we don't mind you chaps going first. After you, old thing.

[oslo.livejournal.com]

There you go, Jeff. Continue to stamp your feet and insist that you're right. That's how you get the better of a debate: frustrate your interlocutors until they decide to stop engaging with you.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it does seem to work. Even good parents get exhausted.