those who could articulate clear and sensible reasons for not going to war which were vindicated by time were not in short supply
The main problem with motivated cognition isn’t that it fails to find true results, the main problems are that it can’t distinguish between true and false and is blind to contrary evidence.
The main problem with motivated cognition isn’t that it fails to find true results, the main problems are that it can’t distinguish between true and false and is blind to contrary evidence.