confirmation bias

I travel an awful lot, and for a while I used to come down with a cold fairly frequently after traveling (one of the usual hazards of air travel).

Somewhere along the way -- a few years back -- someone suggested that I try Airborne, the tablets you drop into some water that fizz up and put a bunch of random vitamins and whatnot into your system.

From the beginning, I was pretty skeptical about it (I don't tend to believe in such things), but figured I didn't have much to lose, and started taking Airborne when I travel.

Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Don Dodge, a former VP of product development at Napster maps out what happened to the company, how they pleaded with the music industry to provide a better solution to them ... and how the music industry had put itself in such a position as to be literally unable to act in its own best interests, or the interests of its artists."