Bias?

Antiwar.com has an interesting post on biases and the nature of bias.

Apparently, disclosure of an analyst's bias doesn't necessarily help the people listening to him to compensate for biases. It may even make the biases worse, as disclosure reduces the analyst's concern that he be fair; after all, if everyone knows where you're coming from, why bother hiding your biases? (Not mentioned but also possibly important- I'm speculating here, folks - would be if people using the analysts become more confident that they are correcting for the analyst's biases and so become more careless about doing the correcting).

That is all.