The Backfire effect Give a man facts that counter his position and he doubles down and fights the new data rather than change his mind.
I think that its important to remember that all "Data" has a human element in it and there is an element of trust in data. The receiver of the data has to trust the collector of the data because the data is either impossible or impractical to replicate. This is especially obvious when reviewing data from say Chinese sources and you have no idea if the writer made everything up or found some sort of real discovery. This is also true for even prestigious universities where a large number (Over 50%) of studies cannot be replicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis. Without fixing this problem a lot of Data and studies that we see has a illegitimacy problem and cannot be trusted unless confirmed by multiple sources.
Human beings are not rational creatures. We are apes, wrapped around monkeys, wrapped around rodents, wrapped around lizards, wrapped around amphibians. Somewhere in all that circuitry, we look at the stars and compose symphonies. Frustrating that you can't grab the logic circuits first, but that is the way we are.
This isn't entirely accurate. Humans are rational creatures, it's just that the inputs and outputs we're reacting to are a Laplace transform of the inputs and outputs we're presented with. The trick is to couch the argument to both sets of I/O and recognize that while you're doing so, you're also coming from a place of id, not ego.
Eventually you get used to the dry heaves and the brain stops trying to vomit. Sort of like being sea sick. Embrace the suck, internalize it and use that data point to help you understand the things happening around you.Every time I read this it makes me nauseous.
Quine had thoughts, but no help in extracting your fellows from the piles of bullshit they're buried under.