Date: 22 Apr 2011 04:52 pm (UTC)
bitterlawngnome: (Default)
I was just narrowly responding to your question - "I wonder if there are ways people can learn to see their biases better and compensate for them?" - and of course the answer is yes, that's what scientific method is supposed to do. So the problem is actually that people are actively rejecting the only tested method we have for rigorously challenging our assumptions.

I think I've probably said it to you before but my contention is that the most fundamental human drive is the urge to make sense of experience - also known as "why?". Science does not answer "why". I think people would be more accepting of science if it were presented as "electrons orbit the nucleus because jehova made them that way." But of course that wouldn't be science anymore.
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