Sensible Thoughts

Jamie Whyte sounds like a sensible fellow:

"Too many people see truth as just a game between groups, as a kind of tribalism. That is not rational. Far too many people are not prepared to say: 'I don’t believe this and here's my argument why I don't'. They don’t feel they need to... These days, scientists are increasingly seen as part of various tribal groups, so when you read about their views the newspapers will go to great lengths to ask who they are working for, what their backgrounds are, and what are their political views are, and so on. Someone's motives may reasonably make you suspicious that that person has an incentive to mislead you, but their arguments are no better or worse than the evidence put forward to support them."