Cognitive Science and FactCheck.org, or Why We (Still) Do What We Do

FactCheck by Joe Miller | Oct. 18, 2007 (Opinion)

Have you heard about how Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet? What about how Iraq was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center? Or maybe the one about how George W. Bush has the lowest IQ of any U.S. president ever? Chances are pretty good that you might even believe one (or more) of these claims. And yet all three are false. At FactCheck.org our stock in trade is debunking these sorts of false or misleading political claims, so when ... Full Story »

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by Julian Friedland - Oct. 1, 2008

Nice bit of philosophy behind the cognitive process of misinformation retention.

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by Paul Keene - Oct. 1, 2008

A very informative article that demonstrates how false statements can become fixed in the mind as a truth.

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by Mike Carlson - Oct. 1, 2008

Throw in a little operant conditioning, symbolic interactionism, and Platonic analysis of political systems and you have the raw ingredients of the means by which democratic systems can be undermined.

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