Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Mainstream Media and Climate Science Explained

Our brains filter out unwanted information. Come to think of it, this explains Janet Napolitano.

Over the past few decades, psychologists have dismantled the myth of objectivity. The fact is, we carefully edit our reality, searching for evidence that confirms what we already believe. Although we pretend we’re empiricists — our views dictated by nothing but the facts — we’re actually blinkered, especially when it comes to information that contradicts our theories. The problem with science, then, isn’t that most experiments fail — it’s that most failures are ignored.

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