Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

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.

that's a good article ..I think we have proved that theory right here on ihub.. that it's totally true. (teabaggers)

Bernstein, Sides, Henry Farrell and Matt Yglesias were all following it .. and added to it ....if interested, it's all combined here .

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/07/democracy-with-open-eyes.html