Can you admit you may be wrong?
I was having a conversation the other day. It was friendly enough. Until it turned to the reliability of journalism and media. They said that they did not trust Fox news, unless of-course, if it was reporting on events in Israel. This was a surprising admission. Being polite, I did not point out that this was an obvious example of confirmation bias . Maybe that was when our conversation deteriorated. Or perhaps, when I pointed out that it often took several alternate sources for me to arrive at a balanced understanding of a topic. I gave examples of news sources I reference, they included ABC , BBC and Al Jazeera . I suppose the last one was a bit inflammatory considering the previous admission, but I do honestly respect their reporting. My intentions were honest. How can you make an informed decision without considering alternate viewpoints, sources and data? That is after all, a principal characteristic to rational thinking. Next, they made an attack on science. They gave an ex...