Don't Bother Me with the Facts

[Danascot]

Why emailing refutations and factual challenges of GOP lies to your conservative friends and relatives only makes matters worse.

"Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler provided two groups of volunteers with the Bush administration's prewar claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. One group was given a refutation -- the comprehensive 2004 Duelfer report that concluded that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction before the United States invaded in 2003. Thirty-four percent of conservatives told only about the Bush administration's claims thought Iraq had hidden or destroyed its weapons before the U.S. invasion, but 64 percent of conservatives who heard both claim and refutation thought that Iraq really did have the weapons. The refutation, in other words, made the misinformation worse."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402375_pf.html

[baldguy]

1. The truth has a well-known liberal bias - and liberals hate Bush.

Therefor, if you support Bush then you must hate the truth.

[LynzM]

2. Crazy...

Human minds do some weird, weird stuff...