As I was saying- emote and then scramble round for evidence to fit. Look, we all do it, me included. It's part of the human condition. It's just that civilization and progress depend on not doing it.… (View Post)

Sadly not. There are plenty of cognitive studies on this. Left to our own devices, we don't think then conclude based on the evidence. We emote and then choose the evidence to fit. Hence the sudden f… (View Post)

But to an extent, that's a circular argument. America is a massive cultural influence on us because we watch it so closely. The downside is that many aspects of the British Question can't be answered… (View Post)

I'm not sure it does, though. In the MP nominations, the cabinet candidate got a pretty hefty lead. Powell, for all the gushing that she's Andy Manc's candidate, is hardly rebellious, and the really … (View Post)

Indeed, doing X-ray crystallography. Which all the best people did, until computers took the fun out of it. (View Post)