A basic difference between science and engineering is that confirmation bias is a feature rather than a bug. When a proposition is false under normal conditions and true under weird conditions that stress the definitions of the proposition, what do you do?
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But then somebody looks at water wheels and windmills that seem to confirm the proposition in very narrow ways. Somebody else notices the apocryphal kettle lid bouncing around. And hey, pursuing confirmation bias produces steam engine and...awaaaaay we go
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Fast forward a couple of centuries, and almost everything humans want moved is being moved by non-biological power. Woohoo. Seeking confirmation bias has made the false idea true, via invention.
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