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Re:Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Hum... by humanrebar on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:07PM (#15614748)
Sure. Abortion providers have no incentives to make sure abortion is subsidized and lightly regulated.

Besides, the inability to entertain the thought experiment is basically my point. The result of the skeptical deliberation is beside the point.

Everyone is subject to cognitive dissonance and perverse incentives. Money is just a particularly easy to quantify incentive.

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Re:Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Hum... by mikeash on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:16PM (#15614798)
I entertained it. The result is above. I imagine lots of people are capable of entertaining it. That they don’t reach the bizarre conclusion you seem to think they should doesn’t mean they haven’t tried.

It’s true that everyone is subject to these things. That does not mean that facts don’t matter, that every opinion is equally valid, or that every belief is due to them.

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