For me the miniseries nicely illustrated the fact that motivated reasoning will eventually clash with the physical reality and the costs may be pretty high. Th

For me the miniseries nicely illustrated the fact that motivated reasoning will eventually clash with the physical reality and the costs may be pretty high. The risk is especially high when the system enables coercion or manipulation to take place instead of persuasion, because motivated reasoning of a single actor with better access to the means of coercion or manipulation (typically a higher-positioned figure in hierarchical arrangements) might be acted upon regardless of its relation to the objective reality, as with Dyatlov. On the other hand, some situations cannot be fully grokked by everyone given the objective constraints. Delegating decision-making is essential in such situations, thus Legasov. What a predicament!