(My personal reaction to updating about fireplaces: It didn’t occur to me until now that fireplaces were dangerous… After reading the article (and spending a few minutes fact-checking Harris’s claims), I just thought “Huh, didn’t know that. I’ll avoid them from now on” and then went back to thinking about other stuff.)
Same here. I just updated and moved on.
While I was reading it, I found myself thinking
“Come on, give me some citations! Just show me some trustworthy studies so I can show my rationalist virtue by gracefully accepting it!”
I’m not sure this was quite the right way to respond.
You mean, like the review article he linked to, and which can be found free online?
Yes, but in-text citations so I wouldn’t have to reach the bottom before I knew if there was going to be a payoff would have helped.