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The big issue is a lot of people will believe what they want to believe. Most folks are not scientists - they start by assuming their conclusions and will choose the soothing moral and emotional rhetoric over evidence.

Trying to see the world objectively puts you in a category of outliers. The people you become friends with due to proximity in everyday life will not be outliers.

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Most people are unaware of how small that outlier group is.

Like there's an even bigger group of people who think they're scientific and unbiased and impartial but they actually aren't. That group is more likely the group you and I are in.

The group of actual objective people is so small that you may never meet a single person like this in your lifetime. That person may even be autistic.

Part of being scientific is realising that you can't be completely unbiased and impartial, but you can be thorough, systematic, rigorous and informed by evidence rather than soundbites.

Some questions don't have definite answers, it's the sophistication of the analysis that counts.

nailed it (and ty for the welcome!)

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