By the 1730s a new type of disease was starting to pop up across Europe. Sufferers would lose their hair, develop lesions all over their body, lose their mental faculties and eventually die. The disease seemed to be linked to corn consumption. Corn was a new crop imported from the Americas only two centuries earlier. […]
Bias is Inescapable
Confirmation bias is the human tendency to seek out and remember examples which support our existing beliefs. It’s easiest to see this with controversial issues. Your friend who doesn’t believe evolution will point to the gap in the fossil record, but not apply the same rigor to the authenticity of religious texts. Another who believes […]
