I just noted my fourth or fifth hit in the past few days searching Google for ‘LGF’ and ‘racist’. These disturb me because the results are going to be deliberately slanted, reflecting the presumed intention of the searcher. Searching on foregone conclusions is an effective means of enforcing one’s preconceptions. Try searching on the opposite of what is believed, ideas with merit will survive scrutiny.

This reminded me of an interview with Rupert Sheldrake I heard a few years ago, one of his points seems completely appropriate:

The universe is reflexive — in other words, it reflects what we are looking for. If you believe that the most important thing in the universe is polarity, you can see it everywhere — you know, heads and feet, north and south poles, roots and shoots in plants. If you think that the most important thing is trinities, threes, you can find threes everywhere you look. If you think that it’s fours, you find fours — the four points of the compass, squares, corners, and so on. You’re always meeting people who have philosophies where the secret of life is this or that, and you can find plenty of evidence for all of these philosophies.

To illustrate my point, I checked Google for a few other potentially loaded searches related to LGF:

 480 hits: Google Search: LGF racist
1170 hits: Google Search: LGF caring
4470 hits: Google Search: LGF right
3040 hits: Google Search: LGF left
2760 hits: Google Search: LGF love
1800 hits: Google Search: LGF hate
1570 hits: Google Search: LGF truth
 870 hits: Google Search: LGF lies