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confirmation-bias

3 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Yellow Rain's bee-feces refutation was never retracted by the US government — and the CIA method built to prevent exactly that failure echoes 1970s backward-chaining logic
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · cold-war-history, intelligence-analysis, confirmation-bias, expert-systems, cross-domain-bridge
• Heuer's Analysis of Competing Hypotheses instructs analysts to disprove hypotheses rather than prove them
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · intelligence-analysis, confirmation-bias, ACH, heuer, falsification
• Meselson and Seeley's bee-feces refutation of 'Yellow Rain' was never formally retracted by the US government
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · cold-war-history, confirmation-bias, chemical-weapons, refutation-not-propagated, intelligence-analysis