The sequences use terms like "intelligence", "smarter", and "cognition", purely to place themselves in what they conceive to be the scientific genre of philosophy.
I believe we have had a very rapid progression of how science is being treated by the layman from the Aristotelian "Logos" more towards the direction of "Ethos":
Science is authority and is to be trusted, rather than speculated on and second guessed.
"Believe the science"
"Trust the science"
And the most ridiculous of all:
"The science is settled"
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.2 ms ] thread"Believe the science" "Trust the science" And the most ridiculous of all: "The science is settled"