> No one cares about facts anymore. There is no need to exaggerate. But I'm not only calling out a poor choice of words... A lot of people (not as many as we

> No one cares about facts anymore. There is no need to exaggerate. But I'm not only calling out a poor choice of words... A lot of people (not as many as we would hope, I grant) care about the truth about facts. Even in this group, however, we have a problem: by the time these people are "looking for facts" their brains have already been shaped in various ways that bias how they look for facts, as explained in articles about motivated reasoning.