http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/06/max_planck_s_principle_physics_and_constant_he_knew_how_to_change_his_mind.html

We live in an age—perhaps the age—of confirmation bias. And given a turbulent sea of information, who can blame us for latching onto the familiar while looking away from anything jarring or mismatched? We yearn for the comforts of our main tribe, be that tribe political, religious, scientific, or economic. If that’s a failing, it is probably a hominid design flaw, far beyond evolutionary recall at this point.