“Social pressure to avoid sharing evidence against a particular claim undermines

–“Social pressure to avoid sharing evidence against a particular claim undermines the confidence we can place in that claim, because it makes more likely the possibility that the (first-order) evidence that does make its way to us is a lopsided subset of the total. This has the perhaps tragic implication that we can typically be less confident of morally and politically laden issues than we can about “dry” subjects like chemistry or cell biology.”-Hrishikesh Joshi