“Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.”
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.