Emotional Logic: How We Think (Without Thinking)

[image error]This is a guest post by Dylan Otto Krider,a skeptic, journalist and science fiction author whose work on the politicization of science has appeared in Skeptic, Dissent and other outlets (www.dylanottokrider.com). Chris Mooney is on book tour.

When the victims of hurricane Katrina started to flood into Houston, I drove to the Astrodome to volunteer to help the refugees, over the objections of friends who insisted security would make it impossible. As it turned out, the entire registration proce...