09-16-2019, 10:10 AM
(09-11-2019, 12:12 PM)McC Wrote: When an individual takes a certain unwavering stance on a particular subject, it's not all that difficult to bend data to fit that stance. The danger in this, though, is the loss of the ability to take individual data at face value.I guess the "Dalton Gang" must be in hiding this week.
It's a very simplistic kind of thinking. It leads to uttering very silly things like Dalton Gang and suggesting that anything other than supporting the actual truth is going on. And then, the next component is characterizing oneself as "realistic," when, in fact, there's nothing realistic about it at all.