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Sam Harris is a cult leader, a quack, and a fraud, and yet so many "rational" and "logical" New Atheists still believe he's an authority on anything when even his doctorate came from a phony foundation financed by his family that was made specifically to give him that doctorate then dissipated. The fucking quack doesn't even do any peer-reviewed papers!
Mans also very defensive of that "bell curve" author. Also spoke in defense of torture
Sam Harris also had some exceptionally clownish takes, such as the claim that "there is more scientific progress in a single New York zip code than in all the history of Islam."
How does one even measure scientific progress in a zip code compared to the history of an entire religion and all its associated sociopolitical connections across many lands, especially one that came up with Algebra (it's in the name!) and chemistry (started under Al-chemy!) and arabic numerals which we're using on this site right now?
That's just it: you can't. It's not even compatible measurements! Even if they were, it's fucking wrong.
Hilariously Sam Harris writes books on meditation now, joined the McMindfulness camp. Its even impossible to criticism him on /r/buddhism without western-supremacists jumping down your throat.
White Buddhism is the fucking worst, or at least it would be if it weren't for techbros coming up with what they call, I kid you not, "Dark Buddhism" which is even worse than that.