And there is a well-documented tendency of people with firm and wrong beliefs exposed to evidence they're wrong, hardening those beliefs instead of examining them.
And there is a well-documented tendency of people with firm and wrong beliefs exposed to evidence they're wrong, hardening those beliefs instead of examining them.
тАЬOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If weтАЩve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. WeтАЩre no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. ItтАЩs simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that weтАЩve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.тАЭ тАХ Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
And there is a well-documented tendency of people with firm and wrong beliefs exposed to evidence they're wrong, hardening those beliefs instead of examining them.
тАЬOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If weтАЩve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. WeтАЩre no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. ItтАЩs simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that weтАЩve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.тАЭ тАХ Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark