"Confirmation bias damages reputations.It ruins credibility.
It destroys lives.
When researchers ignore contradictory data that undermines their assumptions, junk science prevails.
When police conduct investigations with predetermined outcomes, wrongful convictions abound.
And when reporters cherry-pick facts and distort images to serve political agendas, media outlets become dangerous weapons of mass manipulation.
Take Talia Lavin, a young journalist who has enjoyed a meteoric rise.
Her pedigree appears impeccable on its face: She graduated with a degree in comparative literature from Harvard University six years ago.
After graduation, she won a Fulbright Scholar fellowship to study in Ukraine.
She "worked in all realms" of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news agency and wire service, copy-edited for the feminist Lilith Magazine, and contributed stories and translations for the Huffington Post.
Lavin has held the coveted position of "fact-checker" for the revered New Yorker for the past three years.
The publication brags that its "fact-checking department is known for its high standards."...
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