waging an uphill battle against the phenomenon known as cognitive bias —which Seth
Mnookin, a Boston-based writer, defines as "a set of unconscious mechanisms that convince us that ... between vaccines and autism, takes a hard look at such biases.
In an interview, Mnookin seconds Carroll's remarks. "The common thread with hot-button issues such as
climate change ... beholder but at the fingertips of the Googler, as Mnookin notes in The Panic
Virus. "One of the first effects of [the] hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information