Pretty decent article:

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney

Excerpt:

> In other words, when we think we're reasoning, we may instead be
> rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia
> psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we're being scientists,
> but we're actually being lawyers (PDF).


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Steven Vincent Johnson
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