“If you ask a computer, it will say, most of the time you want to either be raising or folding, right? You want to take an aggressive action or quit. I think this is a great metaphor for lots of things in real life, too.”

Astronomer Adam Frank asks: With so many extraordinary claims, why can't anybody produce the proof?

“People will claim that something is rigorous because it's by an authority figure or it's written in a book. But anyone can write a book.”

It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not driven by opinion, prejudice, or bias. It's not unchallengeable. And it's more than facts alone.

The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker.

Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.