Sam Harris has a great summary of this: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/395-intellectual-authority-and-its-discontents https://www.samh

Sam Harris has a great summary of this: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/395-intellectual-authority-and-its-discontents https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/395... It's so true in my opinion "doing research" is has often become, "finding a view that agrees with my world view" and to add to that, using that view to reinforce my beliefs. It's really diabolical.