The modern believer is not suspicious enough | Julian Baggini | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jan/26/modern-believer-not-suspicious-enough

The question rightly asked, however, is how reliable are the various
cognitive mechanisms we use for establishing different kinds of truth?
And there seems to be no escaping the simple fact that subjective
experience, in all its forms, is a very unreliable detector of
objective reality. Despite the comfort Vernon draws from recent
research, there is no escaping the fact that the vast bulk of it
points in exactly the opposite direction, undermining any confidence
we might feel that our intuitive judgments are effective
truth-trackers.
---SPSmith