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"buy into their own bullshit"? You're putting words into the author's mouth.

What has the author said about intuition? That it is unsuitable for answering scientific questions. The author hasn't said it's bad for decision-making, nor that it has no place in generating questions. Just that it is poor for providing rigorous answers

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What the author actually said was:

"We simply cannot place enough confidence in intuition to accept it as a source of information."

In other words, the author is saying that not only is intuition not on par with scientific knowledge, but it isn't good for anything.

The author also says "Under a scientific framework, input from intuition, tradition, experience, common sense, experts, and logic might be incorporated during the construction of a preliminary hypothesis"

You're taking one sentence out of context of the entire article. He's talking about being a source of scientific information - it's pretty clear if you read the article as a whole.

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