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I should go read the full meta-study, but I know that I am just going to exhibit massive confirmational bias for my own teetotaler status.

Should I Take to Drink?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Mike has offered some interesting posts (here and here) on confirmational and disconfirmational bias.

Damasio on Bias 2006

As with Maddy's third objection, it gives us some cause to reject confirmational holism.

Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008

Given that set theorists do not do this, confirmational holism again seems to be advocating a revision of standard mathematical practice, and this too, claims Maddy, is at odds with naturalism (Maddy 1992, pp. 286-289).

Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008

Again it seems that confirmational holism is in conflict with actual scientific practice, and hence with naturalism.

Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008

I just felt that this was a good example of confirmational bias in action.

Confirmation Bias and ID 2006

He labels such treatises "confirmational journalism", narrowly calibrated to a sliver of audience with the express purpose of reaffirming the viewpoint of the author.

Arlene M. Roberts: The Argument for Reform 2008

The first is the confirmational holism discussed above

Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008

I was trying to make a point about confirmational bias, albeit using your posts as the example.

Confirmation Bias and ID 2006

Thus, since there are no competing hypotheses, it is a mistake to think that mathematics receives confirmational support from empirical evidence in the way other scientific hypotheses do.

Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008