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The great undiagnosed dysrationalia epidemic

8 June 2018

12:54 PM

8 June 2018

12:54 PM

I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it is to accept the thrust of global warming alarmism? Then the other day I happened on a single word that explains it: dysrationalia. Maybe you know it already, but I only now learnt that the term was coined in the early 1990s by US psychologist Keith Stanovich.

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