Definitions, Daffynitions, Delusions, Logic and Critical Thinking.

The stance described here is an ideal behavior, not a realistic one.Science succeeds through prejudice.A quote from an essay called "In Defense of Prejudice": "[science] does not require that scientists be unbiased, only that different scientists have different biases."

If the results are academic and have no personal importance, then it's possible. But when the results are going to have personal ramifications (on one's career, for example), then bias is inevitable.This big-to-do in education about "critical thinking" is mere piety. The term "critical thinking" is meaningless. It just means "thinking."It's a reaction to "rote" learning, although memorization has its place in education. To be sure, mere memorization by itself is not good education.

By personal I mean practical.And what's all this talk about "courage"?

This does not correspond to my experience of life in the least. I never had any religious beliefs to begin with, but I don't think it took any "courage" to go on not having religious beliefs. It didn't take any "courage" for me to examine arguments on both sides.Just sounds like boasting to me.

Everybody is ego-driven.