irrationality

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Irrationality has been the hallmark of this disease and it shows no signs of letting up.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2021

This roundup of the week’s news appeared in Rational Irrationality, John Cassidy’s weekly newsletter.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 21, 2018

Irrationality was not, it seemed, the liberating force the surrealists hoped it would be.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2018

Then I read Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland – by the old man in question – and realised the urgent relevance of psychology and how much it can reveal about the way the way we think.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2017

Irrationality was dangerous to Pythagoras, as it threatened the basis of his ratio-universe.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife