My father knew Juan Móricz and Stanley Hall and was involved with the whole Cueva de los Tayos affair. Móricz claimed he had himself seen the metal library. He made it up in order to gain credibility to fund the expedition. We know this because Petronio Jaramillo, a captain in the army stationed in a jungle post near the cave was the one that told him about the cave. He confessed that he himself had not seen the cave but was told of it by a Shuar indian. And so it goes.
I call it the Móricz Syndrome. Same thing happening with Elizondo. People pretending to have been witness to things in order to lend credibility to the story.
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@michaelshermer If the evidence is blurry, believers say it’s mysterious.
If it’s clear, it becomes identifiable and ordinary. The evidence must remain poor-quality to preserve the mystery.
@michaelshermer Indeed. It's not an accident that all the images purported to show alien craft are grainy and blurry, if they weren't we'd see what they are (not alien) and they’d stop being “evidence” for aliens.
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@davidasinclair Francis Crick was a physicist before he began work in biology and discovered the structure of DNA. He was inspired by Schrödinger’s thoughts who was also a physicist. Protein folding was solved by AI.
Marx spent his entire adult life as a trust fund parasite, living off Engels' textile fortune while writing screeds against capitalism. The irony writes itself. This freeloading theorist never ran a business, met a payroll, or created value for anyone.
His labor theory of value crumbled in 1871 when Menger explained subjective value. Marx claimed workers get "exploited" through voluntary exchange. Employment contracts benefit both parties. Otherwise, why would anyone agree?
The man who promised to liberate workers delivered the Gulag. His intellectual descendants murdered 100 million people trying to implement his economic fantasies. Meanwhile, free markets lifted billions out of poverty.
@Pontifex So the concern is not the war or the suffering itself, but rather the dragging of the “sacred” religion and “God” into that “filth”. Ok.. People that are more concerned about imaginary friends than the real world belong in pre-school or the loony bin.
@GiacomoUSA@michaelshermer My thoughts exactly. I struggle to find anything else I disagree with him on. That leaves Dennet’s reason in need of explanation..
@NTFabiano Is “sleep duration” calculated as sleep-tracking devices such as fitbit do; i.e., deducing wakefulness moments during sleep? Or should one just calculate from the time you fall asleep to the time you wake up?