Acknowledging that everyone has biases is healthy, but overdoing it can collapse standards and treat all claims as equally valid. The conversation urges distinguishing ordinary cognitive bias from deliberate deception so 'everyone is biased' doesn’t become a shield for lying.
— This offers a practical norm for journalism, scholarship, and policy debate that curbs nihilism without restoring naive deference to authority.
Dan Williams
2025.07.19
100% relevant
Their 'Everyone is Biased' bias segment contrasting routine bias with 'brazen lying' (e.g., Elon Musk) and warning against relativism.
Dan Williams
2025.07.07
70% relevant
Williams concedes perspective and selection effects in interpreting data but argues that elevating oppressed standpoints to epistemic privilege slides into relativism and weakens objective methods—echoing the warning that overemphasizing bias awareness can erode standards.
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