And since 2003 social scientists, psychologists, and pollsters have been busy examining why false beliefs like these are embraced even in the face of irrefutable evidence—and what impact this sort of disinformation has on American political discourse. The resulting research shows that the Iraq War looks like an early version of a current phenomenon: the right wing rooting its stances in simple untruths about the world (see climate change). So heres a quick trip through some of the ground-breaking scholarship on how the Iraq war polarized the US public over the acceptance of basic facts.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:06:45 +0000
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