You strike me as more arrogant than Robin. I'm not sure why. Certainly arrogance does not help in overcoming bias.
"This makes me tend to doubt any and all ideas which come from a spirit of skepticism towards mainstream science. A more current example would be global warming skepticism, in all its many variants."
So what are you doing to overcome this bias?
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him