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To: Ron who wrote (50100)	5/15/2022 9:58:39 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	1 Recommendation Recommended By Ron Respond to of 51717

Great article. It's seems a bit of a cynical view of the human objectivity and he cognitive bias debate. I think modern Democracy has to go forward with thinking we can find and agree on small "t" truths through the scientific method, or a modern due process justice system etc. And factoring in bias as transparently as possible. Never perfect -- constant testing and revisions as we gain more context and knowledge. No fixed Truth but pursuit of facts and truths. A process, not a final destination of knowledge looking back. JMHO. ...history is not a science. Essentially, as A. J. P. Taylor said, it is “simply a form of story-telling.” It’s storytelling with facts. And the facts do not speak for themselves, and they are not just there for the taking. They are, as the English historian E. H. Carr put it, “like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use—these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants.”