[MD] Food for thought

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Mary]
> 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.

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Maybe they see themselves as identifying misinformation & bias. Just as bad is believing everything you hear/read.
The only solution is to buy 2 copies of the newspaper so that you can check the facts.
Craig