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"Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it." -Nietzsche (@robsica.bsky.social)

Fort Collins
Joined July 2010
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View from the threshold of the #Nietzsche-Haus, Sils Maria, October 1992.
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🔪"Human evolutionary history manifests in many observable ways in the daily behavior of contemporary people and in how their minds work, even if they don't acknowledge it." cambridge.org/core/books/dep…
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✨"The results of individual scientific studies are trifling details if one is unable to reflect on them through the central theories overarching entire fields of science."
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Very happy to have been shortlisted in the Specialist Journalism category in this year's British Journalism Awards for my investigation into Cambridge University professor Jason Arday and the extensive plagiarism in his PhD thesis #BJA2026
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✨"Psychiatry and psychology can no longer ignore the fact that the human species has millions of years of evolutionary history behind it, which is still reflected in human biology, cognition, and behavior." cambridge.org/core/books/dep…
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"The core idea of the book [...] is a radical idea from the perspective of mainstream psychiatry, and it will arouse criticism – as all new radical ideas do in science."
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– at Fort Collins, CO
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Underappreciated--
Replying to @jon_stewartmill
Nietzsche is very dangerous for so-called "critical theories".
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"Like with Gauguin, we recognize, okay, he did something terrible, abandoned his family, but he's also a great artist. And that's a good thing. So we evaluate lives in the round. And morality is one consideration, but it's not the only one." skeptic.com/michael-shermer-…
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An alternative interpretation is that advocating for x convinces the advocate (as well as others) that the advocate believes x, but does not necessarily convince the advocate of x.
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✨🔪"Lying involves contradicting what you know, but even more so contradicting what you don't know. -- The second kind of lie is so common that it is no longer a stumbling block: human interaction is shaped by it." google.com/books/edition/Unp…
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✨🔪"Lying means not just saying things that go against what you know, but especially saying things that go against what you don't know. And this is how you speak about yourselves in conversation and use it to deceive your neighbors." google.com/books/edition/Thu…
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Alex Rosenberg's Atheist Guide to Reality is the first book of university. It is the first philosophical, psychological, and sociological framework that students need in order to see who we are.
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🔪"No wonder scientists are more committed to bridging the gulf between their culture and the humanities than vice versa. We are all hardwired humanists. Perhaps only a few of us can successfully shed our humanist cloaks and gird on scientific armor."
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😸🔪 "There may be two cultures, but only one of them is free from illusions and qualified to tell us about reality. That doesn't mean that scientism has nothing to say about the humanities, beyond curbing their pretensions." google.com/books/edition/The…
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🔪"No wonder scientists are more committed to bridging the gulf between their culture and the humanities than vice versa. We are all hardwired humanists. Perhaps only a few of us can successfully shed our humanist cloaks and gird on scientific armor."
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"Advocates often come to believe their own arguments... constructing a case selectively increases processing of useful evidence, and advocates subsequently fail to fully adjust for the resulting bias in processed evidence." researchsquare.com/article/r…
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I believe in the scariest conspiracy theory of all: the human mind has conspired to make us think there are shadowy cabals of hyper-competent agents controlling everything, when in reality most people are incompetent, chaos reigns supreme, and nobody is in control, including us.
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Male Brain Freeze, Manifesting Bankruptcy, and Myths of Self-Esteem The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Linkfest for October 2026 stevestewartwilliams.com/p/m…
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Curioso: a más amantes, menos celos: Imagina que tu pareja te engaña y el número total de encuentros sexuales es exactamente el mismo. La intuición más común dice que cuantos más rivales haya, más deberías sufrir. Sin embargo, dos estudios preregistrados con más de 1.300 adultos estadounidenses muestran lo contrario: la gente reporta más celos cuando los encuentros se concentran en una sola persona que cuando se reparten entre varias. La razón que proponen los autores es funcional. Los celos no parecen estar calibrados simplemente a la “cantidad” de sexo extra, sino a lo que ese patrón implica para la relación. Tener relaciones repetidas con la misma persona suele señalar un mayor riesgo de involucramiento emocional, de que se forme un vínculo que amenace de verdad la pareja principal. En cambio, varios encuentros aislados con distintas personas se perciben más como algo puramente sexual y, por tanto, menos peligroso para el apego y el compromiso. De hecho, en el segundo experimento los participantes calificaban los encuentros múltiples como “más engaño”, pero sentían menos celos. La ira hacia la pareja no cambiaba de forma clara entre escenarios, lo que sugiere que el efecto es relativamente específico de los celos. En el pre-registro contemplaron la posibilidad de que el patrón fuera más marcado en las mujeres (por la mayor sensibilidad habitual al apego emocional), pero el abstract y la información pública del artículo no reportan diferencias por sexo ni destacan ninguna interacción. El hallazgo se presenta de forma general para la muestra. El estudio sí se realizó con hombres y mujeres, pero las posibles diferencias entre ambos no se analizan o no se mencionan como resultado relevante en lo publicado.
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