Neuroskeptic explains “the ability of researchers to eventually squeeze support for a theory out of initially negative data,” a problem that, though sometimes outright fraud, can also be “extensions of ordinary human cognitive biases: especially our tendency to wishful thinking, and our amazing capacity for post-hoc rationalization.”
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