http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/12/14/re-thinking-the-way-colleges-teach-critical-thinking/

"Practice with a scientific way of thinking—developing conclusions that flow from the data, rather than cherry-picking data to support your pre-existing conclusion—"

If we could just get the TBMs in our lives to do this one thing, TSCC would crumble. Sadly, many TBMs won't even look at the data much less begin to analyze it.

But, there is hope! Most of us on RFM have freed ourselves from the intellectual prison imposed by the "pre-existing conclusion." Reminds me of something I once read here:

Where TBMs are, we once were. Where we are now, TBMs may become.