Sam Harris has said many quackish and stupid things in his dubious career as a self described "scientist" that has never published a peer-reviewed scientific paper and used his family fortune to assign himself a PhD that he uses to peddle his books and merch.
One of the worst things he ever said was "there is more scientific advancement in a single New York zip code than in the entirety of Islamic history." One is a location, one is a measure of time. If we're going to combine those, how many seconds of that New York zip code's "scientific advancement?" How many years focused on that location? It's such a remarkably "not even wrong" level of stupid that it hurts thinking about it.
Sam Harris has said many quackish and stupid things in his dubious career as a self described "scientist" that has never published a peer-reviewed scientific paper and used his family fortune to assign himself a PhD that he uses to peddle his books and merch.
One of the worst things he ever said was "there is more scientific advancement in a single New York zip code than in the entirety of Islamic history." One is a location, one is a measure of time. If we're going to combine those, how many seconds of that New York zip code's "scientific advancement?" How many years focused on that location? It's such a remarkably "not even wrong" level of stupid that it hurts thinking about it.