I'm sympathetic to that as an issue, but most people aren't rigorously combing over all evidence, they're making snap decisions with the availability heuristic.

I'm sympathetic to that as an issue, but most people aren't rigorously combing over all evidence, they're making snap decisions with the availability heuristic. So in practice the 1% of evidence against something really obvious ends up being enough ammo for people who have an agenda to form a convincing case. This happens a lot with conspiracy theories like <insert your favorite example here>