That’s a really good point. I was thinking purely in terms of evidence levels against the belief but how much resources is spent rationalizing it might matter. I was trying to avoid thinking too much of that by using the most obviously crazy beliefs all around, but if there’s systematic rationalization attempts more for one than another that might not help.
Could you expand why you think they don’t have about the same levels of evidence against? They seemed to to me, but it is possible that I’m missing something. I agree that making such comparisons across domains may be tough.
That’s a really good point. I was thinking purely in terms of evidence levels against the belief but how much resources is spent rationalizing it might matter. I was trying to avoid thinking too much of that by using the most obviously crazy beliefs all around, but if there’s systematic rationalization attempts more for one than another that might not help.
Well, your examples are not very well balanced by level of evidence against, although it’s hard to compare this across different domains.
Could you expand why you think they don’t have about the same levels of evidence against? They seemed to to me, but it is possible that I’m missing something. I agree that making such comparisons across domains may be tough.
Oops. I was comparing Birtherism to controlled demolition theories and forgot that not all 9/11 Truther theories were that crazy.