Fantastic article in Nature on how cognitive bias damages the work of scientists, and how scientists are trying to fight back against it.
The funny thing I noticed about these is how religious apologists work the exact opposite way. They celebrate these faults in thinking, among others, and defend them ferociously, never attack them.
Cognitive Bias: a bug in science, a feature in religion.
Jacques
A followup on your posting:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-fool-themselves-and-how-they-can-stop-1.18517
Jacques
Now if I had only followed that link in the beginning of your post…… what an idiot…. as soon as I saw your graphic I *knew* I had heard something about that lately.