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by TeMPOraL 2358 days ago
I'm arguing that the phenomena seem identical in their underlying structures. In both cases, we're dealing with a situation in which a person faces mountains of evidence that a source (a newspaper, or scientific papers in a given field) keeps pumping out inaccurate or wrong publications, but despite all that evidence, they assume that whatever isn't explicitly pointed out as wrong must be 100% true, accurate and honest.
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Ah, yes. Wishful thinking.