Reclusive Leftist laments people’s gullibility and points to this “ESP experiment”. Go to it and see. What’s amazing is not the experiment itself (you do see the simple trick, don’t you?), but people’s responses: naturally it must be something paranormal.

We could conjecture all day about the evolutionary advantage of gullibility as a means of group cohesion, but it seems pretty clear to me it’s serving us ill in this day and age. This is one of the topics to which my thoughts return, and there’s an essay just waiting to be written. Stay tuned…