Quotes by Lee McIntyre

“Unlike rival theories, rival ideologies are not decidable on the basis of empirical investigation.”

“In social science, in contrast to natural science, it seems that by the time one goes in search of empirical evidence, a favored theory has already been chosen, and evidence is being gathered not in order to test it but in order to confirm it.”

“At its heart, what is distinctive about science is that it cares about evidence and is willing to change its theories on the basis of evidence.”

“If the scientific attitude were just a matter of how one feels about whether one cares about evidence, it would not be possible to differentiate between the genuinely earnest person who is searching for a way to test their beliefs against experience versus the ideologues who are deluded into thinking that they care about evidence merely because they cherry pick facts that confirm their prior beliefs.”