After all, Dr. Broecker and his followers, too, may be emotionally invested in his ice-sheet theory: Confirmation bias can affect us all.

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Two concepts, Argumentative Theory and Confirmation Bias, can explain much of this.

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Such would be that so far elusive Dow Theory Buy confirmation.

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