Claims Quote by Steven Pinker

“When you enter the realm of politics and ideology, the distinction between opinion and fact starts to cloud, and the stakes become dauntingly high;…

— Michael Hirschorn

“It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working…

— Spencer A. Rathus

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias. More generally, the right spent a lot of time and money building an alternative reality. Think of a…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

— Philip Kitcher

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you…

— Mary Roach

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and…

— Noam Chomsky

I know politics makes people skeptical.

— Marty Walsh

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it…

— Santiago Calatrava

“Unable to see their own biases, most people will simply drive each other crazy arguing rather than accept answers that contradict what they already…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“It's easy to let your biases—political, intellectual, or otherwise—color your view of the world. A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest…

— Steven D. Levitt