A Cursory View of "the Reasonable Person Standard"

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

Some extol their rationality to the exclusion of other facts, using highly motivated reasoning. It just came up yesterday:
 

@Dale

This certainly has broad application outside climate science!:

…the smarter we are, the better we are at motivated reasoning, because we’re better at finding and marshaling and presenting the arguments that show that we’re right.