Cherry picking has its uses

“Ya know, perhaps it would be worthwhile taking a look at the presentations made to get funding for or sell stock in actual mining operations.

Do you suppose they would reveal similar misstatements, equally invisible to the mining industry people?”

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/bob-carter-does-his-business/

Fading from view

“If you stare long and hard enough at a tiny piece of the puzzle that gives you the answer you want, you find the rest of the picture conveniently fades from view.”

Are you a genuine skeptic or a climate denier?

How facts backfire

More on confirmation bias.  The more we know about it, it seems, the worse it gets.

Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains

By Joe Keohane

July 11, 2010

More on confirmation bias

‘When presented with unwelcome scientific evidence, it seems, in a desperate attempt to retain some consistency in their world view, people would rather conclude that science in general is broken.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/03/confirmation-bias-scientific-evidence