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Psychologically speaking, how can a person continue to hold beliefs that are provably wrong? (E.g. vaccines causing autism, the Earth only being 6000 years old, etc)

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[Neuroscience] Is there a difference in language comprehension depending on which ear we listen with?

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Is gravity "pulling" me down...or is the Earth "pushing" me up? (Relativity question)

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Why do metals form veins in the Earth's crust? Why aren't they just distributed homogeneously?

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How come the Hubble Space Telescope isn't obsolete, despite being 25 years old?

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What happens to a person who starts taking antidepressants if they don't actually have a depressive disorder?

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How does the existence of quantum entanglement not conflict with the Uncertainty Principle? Is this an unsolved paradox?

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Is Dark Energy increasing? And how does it drive the accelerating expansion of spacetime?

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At the moment of the Big Bang, how could the universe be a single point AND have a density?

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Could "high-temperature" superconductors be more manageable in the vacuum of space?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Psychologically speaking, how can a person continue to hold beliefs that are provably wrong? (E.g. vaccines causing autism, the Earth only being 6000 years old, etc)	1775
[Neuroscience] Is there a difference in language comprehension depending on which ear we listen with?	23
Is gravity "pulling" me down...or is the Earth "pushing" me up? (Relativity question)	11
Why do metals form veins in the Earth's crust? Why aren't they just distributed homogeneously?	1
How come the Hubble Space Telescope isn't obsolete, despite being 25 years old?	1
What happens to a person who starts taking antidepressants if they don't actually have a depressive disorder?	1
How does the existence of quantum entanglement not conflict with the Uncertainty Principle? Is this an unsolved paradox?	1
Is Dark Energy increasing? And how does it drive the accelerating expansion of spacetime?	1
At the moment of the Big Bang, how could the universe be a single point AND have a density?	1
Could "high-temperature" superconductors be more manageable in the vacuum of space?	1