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		roywiggins on March 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The British amateur who debunked the mathematics o... Fun fact, one of the big guys in positive psychology accidentally inspired the Bush torture program, which was similarly based on scientific-sounding nonsense. https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/theory-psy...

AlexCoventry on March 4, 2018 [–]

That's like saying that our understanding of respiratory anatomy inspired water boarding.

I'm glad New Yorker has improved its journalistic standards a little since then.

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