Another cluster I’d throw in: believing in “woo” stuff (e.g. crystal healing, astrology, acupuncture) as anything other than a placebo. Now, if someone was raised to believe in some of those things, I wouldn’t count it heavily against them. But if they at one point were a hard-nosed skeptic and later got seriously into that stuff, I’d take this as strong evidence that something had gone wrong with their mind.
Not quite sure it’s a cluster; I can name just one major case of “prominent rationalist → woo promoter”, though I feel like there might be more, That person I would say went somewhat generally crazy.
Another cluster I’d throw in: believing in “woo” stuff (e.g. crystal healing, astrology, acupuncture) as anything other than a placebo. Now, if someone was raised to believe in some of those things, I wouldn’t count it heavily against them. But if they at one point were a hard-nosed skeptic and later got seriously into that stuff, I’d take this as strong evidence that something had gone wrong with their mind.
Not quite sure it’s a cluster; I can name just one major case of “prominent rationalist → woo promoter”, though I feel like there might be more, That person I would say went somewhat generally crazy.
I can definitely think of two obvious examples just offhand, and I know that I’ve noticed more, but haven’t exactly kept track.