on: Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager to Be ... I protest! It's not a "both sides" thing. It's an empirical observation, and in my experience quite a reliable one.There are infinitely many facts, and the choice of which facts to select and how strongly to weigh them is not itself a fact, it's a choice made by humans. When those humans are busy advocating for a political position, you can be sure that this is what's dominating their choice. As I pointed out once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973366), anyone with a little self-honesty can easily notice themselves doing it.https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...This doesn't mean there's no truth or that it's impossible to know what the truth is. It might mean that political passion is too strong a force for the truth-finding process not to be perturbed by it. reply