--- title: "11 Confirmation-bias Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 11 Confirmation-bias quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Confirmation-bias sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ef/criss-jami-320_beliefs_with-enough-mental-gymnastics-just-about_1239731.jpg" --- > [“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/with-enough-mental-gymnastics-just-about-any-fact-can-become/) [Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ef/criss-jami-320_beliefs_with-enough-mental-gymnastics-just-about_1239731.jpg) > [“Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/confirmation-bias-is-the-most-effective-way-to-go-on-living-a-lie/) [Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/criss-jami-320_bias_confirmation-bias-is-the-most-effective_1829160.jpg) > [“Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-stinger/given-the-level-of-understanding-and-the-fact-that-they-believed/) [Mario Stinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-stinger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/798/mario-stinger-37802_atheism_given-the-level-of-understanding-and-the_1477294.jpg) > [“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-stokes/people-are-always-clinging-to-what-they-want-to-hear-discarding-the/) [Paula Stokes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-stokes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58d/paula-stokes-14657_clinging_people-are-always-clinging-to-what-they_402649.jpg) > [ “Most of us are not really approaching the subject \[scriptures\] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/most-of-us-are-not-really-approaching-the-subject-scriptures-in-order/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_most-of-us-are-not-really-approaching-th_1730103.jpg) > [“The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/una-mccormack/the-proliferation-of-material-means-that-people-might-start-to-become/) [Una McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/una-mccormack/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/una-mccormack-43320_confirmation-bias_the-proliferation-of-material-means-that_376292.jpg) > [“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/it-was-a-good-answer-that-was-made-by-one-who-when-they-showed-him/) [Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/francis-bacon-297_confirmation-bias_it-was-a-good-answer-that-was-made-by-on_956643.jpg) > [“What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/what-i-tried-to-make-clear-in-good-calories-bad-calories-was-that/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/gary-taubes-11659_bad-science_what-i-tried-to-make-clear-in-good-calor_2323946.jpg) > [“Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/even-if-these-researchers-do-see-the-need-to-address-the-problem/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/gary-taubes-11659_bad-science_even-if-these-researchers-do-see-the-nee_2393836.jpg) > [“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective bubble, the phenomenological gaps between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/let-us-thusly-embrace-the-assumption-that-to-each-advocate-of-a/) [Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/251/ashim-shanker-13588_confirmation-bias_let-us-thusly-embrace-the-assumption-tha_1530807.jpg) > [“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/in-the-mid-1980-s-i-was-asked-by-an-american-legal-institution-known/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) 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It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result, the individuals involved in this research have not only wasted decades of time, and effort, and money but have done incalculable damage along the way. 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With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories may be rigorously tested in the next twenty years. If confirmed, it will be another decade or so after that, at least, before our public health authorities actively change their official explanation for why we get fat, how that leads to illness, and what we have to do to avoid or reverse those fates. 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The resident of a given bubble has become so inured to the echoes of his own ‘truth’ as to abandon all terms of commonality with the ‘truths’ of others outside his bubble. The internal terms, concepts, definitions and assumptions underlying each paradigm are different and incommensurate with those of their external counterparts. And so, to debate them would be tantamount to speaking through one another without much mutual understanding. In their communities, they speak different words, abide by different sets of logic, axioms and propositions from those of other communities; they, thusly, do not understand the terminology upholding other paradigms beside their own, and many attempts at translation have become lost in circular discourse for there exists no equivalency of terms. Thus, any gaps between bubbles of paradigm are beyond traversal; all arguments between them remain perplexing and irreconcilable. There, then, evolves, among them, a strong tendency to seek out information that only serves to confirm their own biases, and, in the process, to otherize any alien paradigms as hotbeds of disinformation.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ashim Shanker" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/let-us-thusly-embrace-the-assumption-that-to-each-advocate-of-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/251/ashim-shanker-13588_confirmation-bias_let-us-thusly-embrace-the-assumption-tha_1530807.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/251/ashim-shanker-13588_confirmation-bias_let-us-thusly-embrace-the-assumption-tha_1530807.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/251/ashim-shanker-13588_confirmation-bias_let-us-thusly-embrace-the-assumption-tha_1530807.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective…” — Ashim Shanker", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights. What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the C.I.A., you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name similar to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., then you are dead? The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. 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