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1. "For some people, the tribe is more important than the truth; for the best scientists, the truth is more important than the tribe."

*What is absolute truth? *

1. "Some environmental activists want scientists to emerge from their ivory towers and get more involved in the policy battles. Any scientist going that route needs to do so carefully, says Liz Neeley. 'That line between science communication and advocacy is very hard to step back from,' she says."

*If data is neutral, then data visualization is designers advocating a stance or an opinion. What is the danger in that? *

1. "In Kahan’s descriptions of how we decide what to believe, what we decide sometimes sounds almost incidental."

I don't think this is necessarily true. People believe based on the partial facts that are given.