How facts backfire – The Boston Globe

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.

via How facts backfire – The Boston Globe.

19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind

19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind.

From The Economic Collapse blog.com

” It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.  It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes.  It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.  But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America.  Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone.  Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time period.  The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little. “

8 Conspiracy Theories About Health That The Mainstream Media Has Been Forced To Admit Are Actually True

8 Conspiracy Theories About Health That The Mainstream Media Has Been Forced To Admit Are Actually True.

The American Dream
Jan 11, 2011

Sadly, the mainstream media receives so much funding and so many advertising dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, the medical industry, the big chemical companies and the health insurance industry that they are extremely cautious to report any information that would be harmful to any of them.