"There is even a certain tendency to punish those who do try to see. A case in point: At the dawn of the sexual revolution, social scientists produced statistical studies purporting to show that childr..."
- J. Budziszewski
"People tend to accept information that confirms their existing beliefs and feelings, and reject information that contradicts them. This is called “motivated reasoning,” and it means that providing peo..."
- Rachel Hilary Brown
"Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what ..."
- Criss Jami
"I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis"
- Antony Beevor
"Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie."
"One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher."
- Iain M. Banks
"What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we're being told - or what we gr..."
- Gary Taubes
"Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question."
"With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias."
"Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the..."