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The false comfort of confirmation bias

The false comfort of confirmation bias

What's vital during this crisis is keeping an open mind

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Melanie Phillips
Oct 01, 2020
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Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle; James Sant, 1850-1916

The Covid-19 crisis is creating a huge penumbra of fear. It’s not just fear of catching the virus. It’s a more prosaic, everyday, intolerable set of worries and gnawing anxieties about about the loss of income or job, or the disastrous effects on the children’s education, or being p…

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