When Sam Harris said that “there was more scientific advancement in a single zip code of New York than in all the history of Islam” I knew instantly what a fucking hack he was. Those aren’t even directly comparable concepts and one is measured geographically and the other in a much more vague and nebulous form!
Hell yeah. Theres so much wrong with Harris it needs a part two
When Sam Harris said that “there was more scientific advancement in a single zip code of New York than in all the history of Islam” I knew instantly what a fucking hack he was. Those aren’t even directly comparable concepts and one is measured geographically and the other in a much more vague and nebulous form!