Evidence based smear campaigns

I don't see how this shows the phenomenon applies only to right-wing people ...I mean, this is what happened with the example of WMD in Iraq, which was obliously biased against more conservative people. But it does not show that doing the same thing with a reverse example aimed more at liberal and left people would not show the exact same thing.Edited by slevesque, : No reason given.

Hi,The situations taken are hardly comparable. The Iraq was a natonwide discussion for easily over 2 years in the entire US, everyone had an opinion on it and everybody was ''brainwashed'' into their position depending on which news source they went to. There is huge background into this when the study is being made.The stem cell research, and if Bush had banned it or not at the time, is hardly anything like that. At the most, it is a peripheral belief that can be easily discarded by anybody.A reverse situation that would maybe be on the same scale would be the global warming issue, and the 'extra-added' information would have to be an official article contradicting the usual ALGore line of thinking of the left.PS i'm not that knowledgeable on US politics, so I may be wrong.Edited by slevesque, : No reason given.

Well, for my part I can't imagine my conservative friends to have such a behavior. Maybe it's an american thing You don't expect this behavior from anybody, this is what makes it surprising. ANd the fact that we didn't expect it from conservatives but it is there, suggests that you cannot come to the conclusion that liberals would not exhibit it also when placed in a similar situation (which I think no similar situation to the WMD-Iraq is present in the research)Edited by slevesque, : Irak - -) Iraq thanks Dr.A

No you read right lol, I meant to say none of my conservative or liberal friends.