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In the world of wellness and health content, few areas of our anatomy attract more interest lately — and specious claims — than the gut microbiome.
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In fairness, concluding no one cares is a specious take, at best, based on the evidence Tuesday.
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This headline is so misleading.
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Pretending that’s not going to happen is misleading and wrong.
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Economist Hyman Minsky spent his career explaining how irrational behavior produces fragility and instability in capitalist systems.
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McClanahan has been close enough to his usual production, but without an irrational need for perfection.
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In spite of D'Arcy's best efforts, Rhaenyra is an impenetrable character with illogical choices and zero magnetism to the viewers (or seemingly, her councilors).
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He’s made his way into the backrooms and finds that the place keeps going, offering up illogical doorways and holes in the floor.
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There is a widespread but fallacious perception that India's tariffs are inordinately high.
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The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?
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Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.
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Those fears are not unreasonable, either, given the ability of AI to do so many things so well.
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Horn’s assessment wasn’t unreasonable; it was based on recent statements by Greenlandic politicians.
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Roosevelt surely understood that nameless, unreasoning, unjustified fear cannot be eradicated.
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Bainbridge knew about secrets and unreasoning shame.
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“Sophistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sophistic. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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