Climate change: the damage to science (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, July 26, 2015, 20:00 (3409 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: “Scientists are just as prone as anybody else to “confirmation bias”, the tendency we all have to seek evidence that supports our favoured hypothesis and dismiss evidence that contradicts it—as if we were counsel for the defence.”
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> Exactly the point I was making to you about preconceptions. (So have some respect for my intelligent bacteria!)-But you know about those intelligent bacteria because I presented them. There are two possible interpretations. I have picked one after much study, not preconceived!