This may not affect your main point but I just wanted to point
out that "dissonant input" is really what drives science. To
perform a repeatable experiment that give results contradicting a
"physical law" is huge news in science... quite the opposite of
pushing it aside after classifying it as useless. There may be
individuals who do as you describe but science as a whole can't.
Science quests for self-consistancy, which may be where it
diverges from level-3, but it certainly does not disregard
inconvenient information. At least not the field of science I'm
in. Perhaps social sciences are different.
Jason
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