Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 14, @09:31AM
from the don't-let-the-truth-get-in-your-way dept.
from the don't-let-the-truth-get-in-your-way dept.
SharpFang writes"In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that misinformed people, particularly political partisans, rarely changed their minds when exposed to corrected facts in news stories. 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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