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3. We haven't even come close to defining what "effective" might be.

Thu Aug 19, 2021, 11:53 AM

Aug 2021

In general "effective" is, in the popular imagination, defined by dogma and mysticism and not observation.

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I see this fallacy over and over again... Random Boomer Aug 2021 #1

I read that with Delphinus Aug 2021 #4

Doom-saying skepticism aside, we still have a choice Vogon_Glory Aug 2021 #2

We haven't even come close to defining what "effective" might be. NNadir Aug 2021 #3