Chris Mooney | The UVA Emails and Confirmation Bias: Seek and Ye Shall Find
For an answer, we can look to an important new book, Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies, How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. In it, Shermer discusses the phenomenon of confirmation bias, invoking the biblical line "seek and ye shall find" to describe this pervasive cognitive flaw.Are warmists immune to this pervasive cognitive flaw?
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