See Feynman's discussion of confirmation bias in the measurement of the charge of the electron... Confirmation bias indeed affects science, but only as a sort

See Feynman's discussion of confirmation bias in the measurement of the charge of the electron... Confirmation bias indeed affects science, but only as a sort of drag. In the end, the measurements Feynman refers to did converge on the correct result, because people kept performing experiments and testing their hypothesis. The same is true for climate research. The difference between science and politics is that politics converges on the popular answer and science converges on the truth.