Absolutely agree it is important for scientists to know about cognitive biases. Francis Bacon, the father of the empirical method, explicitly used cognitive biases (he called them "idols," and even classified them) as a justification for why the method was needed.
I always said that Francis Bacon should be LW's patron saint.
I nominate Carneades, the inventor of the idea of degrees of certainty.
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