The first is that wishful thinking is surprisingly powerful. A few years ago, the economist Guy Mayraz conducted a simple experiment at Oxford university’s Centre for Experimental Social Science. Mayraz ran sessions in which...
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on All the President’s Nominees: The Legion of GroomJon Stewart gets it: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-administration-cabinet/2024/11/22/id/118…
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