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Winning counterterrorism's version of Pascal's wager, but struggling to open the purse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2014
Abstract
Lankford's essential empirical argument, which is based on evidence such as psychological autopsies, is that suicide attacks are caused by suicidality. By operationalizing this causal claim in a hypothetical experiment, I show the claim to be provable, and I contend that its truth is supported by Lankford's data. However, I question his ensuing arguments about beauty and goodness, and thereby the practical value of his work in counterterrorist propaganda.
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Winning counterterrorism's version of Pascal's wager, but struggling to open the purse
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