You will find what you go looking for

Confirmation bias is not a glitch in other people. It is the default search setting of a mind that wants to stay coherent.

Once a story feels like yours, contradictory facts arrive as irritants. You remember the article that agreed with you and forget the one that made you pause.

A cheap countermeasure: write the strongest version of the opposing view before you argue. If you cannot, you are not ready to disagree. You are only ready to announce.