Ridley has a hidden agenda here - he's a global warming denier and he emphasizes confirmation bias to explain how all the climate scientists got it wrong (unlik

Ridley has a hidden agenda here - he's a global warming denier and he emphasizes confirmation bias to explain how all the climate scientists got it wrong (unlike him). Look at for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#Views_on_climate_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley#Views_on_climate_ch... "I see confirmation bias everywhere in the climate debate" The cliche he derides that "scientists love proving themselves wrong" is a cliche of the climate debate to argue that the whole field of climate science is unlikely to be rotten (personally I think the point is more that scientists love proving their colleagues wrong). There's a endnote identifying the article as "The first of three columns on the topic of confirmation bias" so I wonder if he'll do a big reveal of AGW-denial or if he's just trying to sow subtle seeds of doubt in the background.