Ideology will distort thinking where reality disagrees with the ideas

being totally sure on issues like that with a strong, violent ideology, in my opinion, turns you into a lousy thinker

what I'm against is being very confident and feeling that you know, for sure, that your particular intervention will do more good than hard, given that you're dealing with highly complex systems wherein everything is interacting with everything else

even highly credentialed experts can be extremely biased by ideology and we must have the confidence to challenge that type of thinking regardless of the source.

Extreme ideology leads to poor thinking.