bacon-novum-organum-1620-idols

Summary

Back in 1620, Francis Bacon wrote down the idea that human minds naturally twist evidence to fit what we already want to be true, making it one of the first known descriptions of confirmation bias in the record. This matters here because it grounds the core problem the system exists to solve: unaided human judgment is structurally biased, so claims need an external mechanism to track and correct for how they were produced.