24 February 2003 - science incredibility

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Science’s Incredibility Problem

Whatever is sufficiently unbelievable is accepted without thought. Yeah, yeah, this humungous ball of fire lifts over the eastern horizon every morning, we don’t worry much about that. And airplanes and cell phones, they just kind of happen, you know?

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