How facts backfire: Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains
By Joe Keohane | Thursday, July 15, 2010 | The Boston Globe
“….when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation…..”….BS
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire?mode=PF
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