My Science

Jake Lo: What judge is going to believe that?
Agent Wesley: My judge.
--Rapid Fire

Modern 'science' is the classic example of confirmation bias in motion. People have a belief. They seek credible evidence that confirms their belief. What better source of evidence could be more credible than a 'scientific study' that backs one's belief?

Markets for bias inevitably form. 'Scientists' perform studies for biased consumers--often through grants of resources provided by those same consumers. If that market grows large enough, it becomes scientific orthodoxy. Buyers collect those slanted studies and call them fact.

They file them away in a mental folder called My Science.