Tornado Alley (PROG)

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F6, if he, or the other one, had lived in the 14th Century they would have believed the
earth was flat .. those two are perfect examples of this threat to all our democracies ..

How facts backfire .. Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains

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
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire?mode=PF
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=52247903 .. and following ..

.. chuckle .. your post is hereby atheisted here as ..

US founders not Christian library, alternatively .. US constitution not christian based library ..

ps: mystery tag .. wonder if one of them will fall ..