Welcome to our world. It's called cherry-picking and it turns out that the smarter we are, the better we are at finding the one piece of evidence that supports our preexisting believe in the face of all the evidence that disproves it. See tweet that follows for Exhibit A.
Exhibit A - an analysis by Dan Kahan showing that the better we are at understanding data + quantitative reasoning, the better we are at cherry-picking the info we need to justify our preexisting opinions on an issue that directly threatens or challenges our identity or ideology. 
(and yes I know there's a typo in the first tweet ... sadly twitter doesn't offer the option to retroactively edit. Oh well!)
"Cranky Uncle" is an entertaining and useful new iphone app and upcoming book by @johnfocook that describes cherry-picking and all the other techniques people use to reject science. Here's a preview!
