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Motivated Reasoning’s Golden Age

It has been doing my head in the last few weeks: Cherry-picked theories and approaches to evidence were gushing at me on so many topics in science communities. It slowly dawned on me that it wasn't a coincidence. Motivated reasoning may be both cause and effect of polarization and partisanship, so maybe it's having a bit of a Golden Age.

https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/motivated-reasonings-golden-age/