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LS is Currently Reading

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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

by Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris

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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

by Matt Ridley

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

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In the pages that follow, I will show that this bleak assessment of the state of the world is wrong.

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“Yet, over time, the conclusions that science has drawn have become ever truer to reality.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

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“Its quest for good explanations corrects the errors, allows for the biases and misleading perspectives, and fills in the gaps.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

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“This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

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“Dr. Mitalipov, 52, has shaken the field of genetics by perfecting a version of the world’s tiniest surgery:”
― Anonymous

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