The Backfire Effect
June 10, 2011
The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/
Some News items. But mainly personal opinions that may be unreasonable, without warrant, meaningless and shameless but relentless and consistent as a blinking light. Of course there is that story about Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the guy who discovered and named oxygen & hydrogen and executed during the reign of terror. He purportedly asked a servant to see if his eyes blinked after he was beheaded. No one could prove the story. But maybe we can see after death.
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