News of disease outbreaks can warp our brains in strange and subtle ways 17.8%
BBC Future - By David Robson - 7/3/2026, 10:00 AM
Confirmation Bias 26.8% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 22% - Negativity Bias 17.5%
Disease and death are back in the headlines. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently outpacing response efforts, and concerns about hantavirus linger, as new patients test positive for the infection. Most of us will never come into contact with these pathogens, and so we should have no need to protect... more