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Semmelweis Reflex: People tend to reject evidence that doesn't fit the established worldview. Named for Ignaz Semmelweis, a surgeon who, before the discovery of germs, claimed washing hands could help prevent patient infections. He was ridiculed and locked away in a mental asylum
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SAYRE’S LAW
The lower the stakes, the more vicious the politics. When there's much to gain or lose, people are careful of what they say & do. When there's little to gain or lose, such as in Twitter culture wars, people become savage, safe in the knowledge it won't really matter.
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SORITES PARADOX
If you have a heap of grain, and you remove grains from it one by one, at what point is it no longer a heap? At what moment does a fetus become alive? No clear answers to these questions exist because language is too low-resolution to accurately describe reality.
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