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Larni
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05-05-2010 6:45 AM

I found this article in the Guardian by Ben Goldacre (The Guardian, Saturday 1 May 2010) that essentially says that right wing people will strengthen their views as a result counter evidence to their position.
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A new experiment published this month in the journal Political Behaviour sets out to examine the impact of corrections, and what they found was far more disturbing than they expected: far from changing peoples’ minds, if you are deeply entrenched in your views, a correction will only reinforce them.
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Evidence based smear campaigns – Bad Science
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This means that right wingers have very little chance of changing their minds; especially when provided with evidence to the contrary to their beliefs.
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Is it then pointless arguing with right wing people because any evidence that is presented that is counter to their beliefs will actually strengthen them?
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