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The actual research is here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xcwdn

I personally found this blog article to be quite insulting to my own intelligence by peppering in these pseudo-intellectual clichés like 'paradox of tyranny'.

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The linked article seems to take a different normative position than the research paper. A more neutral tone would be okay if they agreed. But the author is explicitly distancing themselves from any implication that they agree that it is good to deprogram so-called conspiracy theorist.

The alternative would be to sarcastically agree/celebrate the research. Which wouldn’t necessarily be obvious to everyone. But perhaps not intellectually insulting?

Insulting because you disagree or because it should be obvious?

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