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The News About Fake News Is Fake

The News About Fake News Is Fake   Johannes Vermeer Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window 1657-59 In the last few days I was looking around for stories that could illustrate what fake news actually is, and I had a nice collection, but then last night Robert Mueller of all people clarified what exactly fake […]

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Psychoanalysing NATO: Confirmation Bias

Psychoanalysing NATO: Confirmation Bias Earlier parts of this intermittent series discussed NATO’s projection and gaslighting. Psychology Today defines confirmation bias as: Once we have formed a view, we embrace information that confirms that view while ignoring, or rejecting, information that casts doubt on it. Confirmation bias suggests that we don’t perceive circumstances objectively. We pick out those bits of data that […]

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People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs

People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs The more people there are who ignore facts that contradict their beliefs, the likelier a dictatorship will emerge within a given country. Here is how aristocracies, throughout the Ages, have controlled the masses, by taking advantage of this widespread tendency people have, to ignore contrary facts: What social scientists call “confirmation bias” and […]

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Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 1

Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 1 Confirmation bias is the tendency of individuals to pay attention to or believe information that confirms the personal values and beliefs they already hold, rather than allowing their beliefs to be changed by new information. It’s a powerful force that many researchers have suggested plays a […]

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THE WORLD AFTER CHEAP OIL

THE WORLD AFTER CHEAP OIL Rauli Partanen, Harri Paloheimo, and Heikki Waris Reviewed by Frank Kaminski Toward the end of this book, its authors make an astute, if self-deprecating, observation about its potential merits. They’ve been discussing how innate human biases cause us to make cognitive errors when trying to make sense of world crises. […]

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