Wagner Review 2.Pdf
1 IN THE COURTROOM WITH ROBERT WAGNER by David W. Mantik, MD, PhD The Mantik View February 18, 2018 Revised August 27, 2018 NOTE: This is my second review of Wagner’s 2016 book; the first was dated December 4, 2017.1 My first review, and Wagner’s response to it, can be found at my website: http://themantikview.com/ 2 § Dr. Mantik states: “It is unique for me to write a second review, but too much remained unsaid after the first review. Wagner’s book clearly required more attention, especially since his profound mistakes are so often duplicated by the unenlightened mainstream media.” § “German judges, very respectable people, who rolled the dice before sentencing, issued sentences 50% longer when the dice showed a high number, without being conscious of it.” -The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2010), Nassim Nicholas Taleb § “If logic and reason, the hard, cold products of the mind, can be relied upon to deliver justice or produce the truth, how is it that these brain-heavy judges rarely agree? Five-to- four decisions are the rule, not the exception. Nearly half of the court must be unjust and wrong nearly half of the time. Each decision, whether the majority or minority, exudes logic and reason like the obfuscating ink from a jellyfish, and in language as opaque. The minority could have as easily become the decision of the court. At once we realize that logic, no matter how pretty and neat, that reason, no matter how seemingly profound and deep, does not necessarily produce truth, much less justice.
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