“In social science, in contrast to natural science, it seems that by the time one goes in search of empirical evidence, a favored theory has already been chosen, and evidence is being gathered not in order to test it but in order to confirm it.” ScienceEvidenceIdeologySocial ScienceNatural ScienceConfirmation BiasMotivated Reasoning Book:Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior Source: Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior