I think the following quote is pertinent to the latest List entries,
for all of us.

"We tend to engage in “a pre-conceived, self-confirming journey for
validation, rather than a quest for knowledge.” ... “We must catch
ourselves in the act of trying to verify our own
preconceptions.”...This is a problem for armchair scientists long on
theory and short on experimentation.... “The distinction between true
believers and skeptics comes at the point of interpretation of
phenomena, and attributions of source of events or perceptions.”   I.
Miller

Ken