Standing in for John Tierny at the New York Times, Nicholas Wade writes about "the powerful human urge to belong inside the group, to think like the majority, to lick the boss’s shoes, and to win the group’s approval by trashing dissenters. The strength of this urge to conform can silence even those who have good reason to think the majority is wrong."
The comments, too, are well worth your time.
About Me
- VOKL - Voice Of Ken Lawton
- VOKL is my self-assigned nom-de-blog in the format of a Newfoundland radio call sign. It gives me a name for my voice. And when you say it out loud it's vocal. See? VOKL. This may also reveal a subconcious desire to punnish my readers. I hope you understand. Anyway it's my blog. Start your own blog.
WUWT World Climate Widget
Looking at this graph how can we believe temperature is driven by CO2? We can't.
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." ~ Henry Louis Mencken
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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