Intellectual mistakes
Intellectual mistakes
Rationalizing

Dualism

Medievalism

Confirmation bias

Reliance on emotion and intuition

Superficiality

Narrow mindedness

Prejudice

Relativism

Incompleteness

Relying on poor sources

Vacuousness

Inability to grasp abstractions

Confusion over nature of theory

Linear thinking

Confuse retrodiction with prediction

Preconceptions

Indifference to valid scientific evidence

Inadequate background knowledge

Lack of awareness

Inadequate knowledge of mechanisms

Focus on what's not known rather than what's known (appeal to ignorance)

Confuse opinion with experimental evidence

Conspiratorial thinking

Quote mining

Clinging to hoaxes

Anecdotal evidence

Results at measurement limits

Ancient wisdom (anachronistic thinking)

Bypass peer review

Confuse correlation with causation

Substitute dogma, doctrine for wisdom

Ignorance of science

Syncretism