Esquire: EVEN! Lindsey Graham and Liz Cheney believe the latest claims against Russia by anonymous "intelligence officials" (we don't even get to know what agency). So you see right there! That's how serious it is! When forced to choose between Trump and claims by...
confirmation bias
There Is More Than One Way to “Spin” a Stat
I recently wrote about how ideology and confirmation bias has infiltrated research into the opioid overdose issue. I spoke about how researchers can “spin” their findings to comport with the prevailing narrative and improve the likelihood of getting published in...
TGIF: Overcoming Confirmation Bias on Guns
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty. People see in events what they want to see. I think of the joke about the person who planned to take his hyperactive dog on a train trip and asked his veterinarian for a...
Don’t Worry. We’re Safe
People who lose sleep over (alleged) Russian propaganda forget we have one awesome weapon protecting us: confirmation bias.
Don't Worry. We're Safe
People who lose sleep over (alleged) Russian propaganda forget we have one awesome weapon protecting us: confirmation bias.
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
