Reciprocity

If you’ve found your way here, you’re probably one of those people who’s curious about the world around you and how it works.

The first thing to note is that this is not a conventional blog. I’m currently writing a book about how we think about things, and how we go about assessing the claims we encounter in daily life for veracity. The intent of this blog is twofold: To be my author’s notes for the book, and to provide a means by which my very many extremely knowledgeable friends around the world can access the topics I want to discuss in the book and to ensure that I’m not, to borrow a phrase from one of those friends, talking from an orifice most readily associated with a more solid form of waste.

As such, much of what I discuss here will be unsourced, as it presumes a certain level of understanding. There will be few citations except where I’m discussing specific areas of research. That’s not to say, of course, that I’m extracting claims from my rectum, only that I’m assuming a particular level of competence in the topics discussed for the purposes of my presentation.

If you have concerns about what I present here, I’m happy to provide citations on request.

While I’ve studied everything I talk about in some depth, I don’t claim to be an expert in any of the topics discussed, and I not only do not suggest that I’m correct in every respect, I assert that there are things I’ve probably gotten wrong. This is exactly the reason I present this material in the way that I do, namely that, where I am wrong, I wish to be corrected.

Where I am wrong, the responsibility lies with me. Where I am correct, the credit goes to that huge list of friends more knowledgeable than myself.