Cromag's Blog – July 2013 Archive (1)

A recent brain-imaging study shows that our political predilections are a product of unconscious confirmation bias



By Michael Shermer



The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion ... draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises ... in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former… Continue