Thinking scientifically requires intellectual honesty: a desire to get to the truth, not just to gather data to confirm your current views
Selectively quoting a few scientists that say what you wanted to hear, while discarding the rest, is not science. It's political propaganda.
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Rational thinking considers all available evidence. You can only get there if you like the truth more than you like being proven right
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Also, if the scientists you quote speak with total confidence on a topic that is far from settled, maybe they're not very good scientists
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So true, people are corrupted with confirmation bias these days.
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Yes, staking a position should just be a prelude to identifying the substance of disagreements and supporting or falsifying hypotheses.
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When we believe in something, we tend to accumulate knowledge which support it, even if its not fact and completely irrational.
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As is selectively funding research so that the results are within what you expect. This is what scares them about ML.
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