So much of human existence is just going along with the narrative. Once in a while you come across some information just makes you sort of pause and scratch your head a bit and wonder if everything you thought you knew is not true. How much of it was just going along with the accepted narrative. The instinct is to fight the outlier and to “defend” what you believed to be true. It’s a strange thing to have to defend something that was never really in your control. Why do we even do it? If you’re a rational human, your views should simply update with the newly discovered information or at the very least make you maul over it for some time to make sense of it instead of outright rejection. I guess such is the outcome of outsourcing many parts of your understanding to others. Not sure where I’m going with this thought - just interesting to see how people treat new data. Cognitive biases are a helluva thing.