Try reading other stuff on that blog. I recommend Meditations on Moloch, for starters.

For long time readers of Slate Star Codex, expecting to find brilliance there is like expecting grass to be green. Scott is a great thinker, and an amazing writer too.

He's far from perfect, but the sheer length of his writing makes the flaws in his thinking easy to see, which I suspect is by design. He's generally right, and makes it easy to see when he's wrong.

Death to Moloch!