Dec 26, 2025 06:53 PM
https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/12/24/sci...life-49887
EXCERPTS: Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without much reflection. From abandoned shopping carts to climate guilt over pet ownership, from misplaced faith in statistical “significance” to misunderstandings of animal behavior, these examples reveal how intuition, habit, and oversimplified science shape what we believe.
[...] We are remarkably good at constructing moral narratives and scientific explanations that feel satisfying, even when they rest on shaky assumptions or misunderstood evidence. A little skepticism—about our own intuitions, about tidy conclusions, and about the limits of science itself—goes a long way... (MORE - details)
EXCERPTS: Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without much reflection. From abandoned shopping carts to climate guilt over pet ownership, from misplaced faith in statistical “significance” to misunderstandings of animal behavior, these examples reveal how intuition, habit, and oversimplified science shape what we believe.
[...] We are remarkably good at constructing moral narratives and scientific explanations that feel satisfying, even when they rest on shaky assumptions or misunderstood evidence. A little skepticism—about our own intuitions, about tidy conclusions, and about the limits of science itself—goes a long way... (MORE - details)