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#175757 03/02/11 06:10 PM
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In the end, truth will out. Won’t it?

Maybe not. Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that 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. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
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without any commentary ... duh

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It's what I've said all along: Facts and Rationality are meaningless since they are so often contrary to what is known to be True. But what else could one expect when we are talking about the preferred paradigms of Liberals and godless Science?


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I think I read about these studies when they first came out. The inability of "the truth will set you free" seems to be a corollary to "confirmation bias". People will usually only pay attention to statements that confirm what they already believe;however, when they are confronted strongly enough with a conflicting statement, whether or not it's true(well, ESPECIALLY if it's true), they go immediately to their "comfort" sources to confirm what they "know" to be true.


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