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comment by ThurberMingus
ThurberMingus  ·  782 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A global epidemic of bad thinking

    Being cancelled or given a Twitter pile-on by woke warriors doesn’t seem to be the solution – it only entrenches the true believers and epistemically stubborn in their false ideas.

A paragraph later:

    So the vaccine for this epidemic is more likely to be facts, stated plainly and often, and for the bad thinkers to be called out and ostracised if they refuse to listen.

There's not much difference between those two. 'If X didn't work we need to try X harder, because its gotta be the solution' is just another variety of bad thinking.