The Backfire Effect

[Thurnez Isa]

I think this was discussed  lightly before... but thought it would be interesting in terms of religion and more importantly your BIP project.. hell it might jarg some good rants or writings or something

it was study done a during the elections...

http://www.duke.edu/~bjn3/nyhan-reifler.pdf

Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler provided two groups of volunteers with the Bush administration's prewar claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. One group was given a refutation -- the comprehensive 2004 Duelfer report that concluded that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction before the United States invaded in 2003. Thirty-four percent of conservatives told only about the Bush administration's claims thought Iraq had hidden or destroyed its weapons before the U.S. invasion, but 64 percent of conservatives who heard both claim and refutation thought that Iraq really did have the weapons. The refutation, in other words, made the misinformation worse.

Ill hold any opinions I have till people read and and commented on the study...