{"id":22181,"date":"2023-06-14T14:34:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=22181"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T12:35:40","slug":"peoples-capacity-to-think-rationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/06\/peoples-capacity-to-think-rationally\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s capacity to think rationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When we think of a pandemic, we often conjure images of deadly infectious diseases that spread rapidly across countries causing unimaginable human suffering (like the Black Death, the Spanish influenza, AIDS, or the ongoing COVID-19 crisis). The West is currently suffering from such a devastating pandemic, a collective malady that destroys people\u2019s capacity to think rationally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gad Saad \u201eThe parasitic mind\u201c has some problems with \u201eleftist professors\u201c but having at the same time a lot of well-rooted observations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I posit that freedom of speech, the scientific<br \/>\nmethod, intellectual diversity, and a meritocratic ethos rooted in individual dignity rather than adherence to the ideology of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) are nonnegotiable elements of a truly enlightened society. A fair society ensures that its members have equality of opportunities and not equality of outcomes as mandated by DIE edicts \u2026 several anti-science, anti-reason, and illiberal idea pathogens including postmodernism, radical feminism, and transgender activism. These idea pathogens destroy our understanding of reality \u2026 the mindset of social justice warriors gave rise to universities that prioritize minimizing hurt feelings over pursuing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alias-mag.de\/die-andere-pandemie\">Interview auf deutsch<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of a pandemic, we often conjure images of deadly infectious diseases that spread rapidly across countries causing unimaginable human suffering (like the Black Death, the Spanish influenza, AIDS, or the ongoing COVID-19 crisis). The West is currently suffering from such a devastating pandemic, a collective malady that destroys people\u2019s capacity to think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/06\/peoples-capacity-to-think-rationally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People\u2019s capacity to think rationally<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3391,2018],"class_list":["post-22181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-covid-19","tag-hygiene-hypothesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22557,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181\/revisions\/22557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}