<![CDATA[There's No Arguing With Conservatives ... No, Seriously, Scientific Studies Prove It]]>

1.0 link 126805 <![CDATA[There's No Arguing With Conservatives ... No, Seriously, Scientific Studies Prove It]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/theres-no-arguing-with-co_b_126805.html A new study out of Yale University confirms what argumentative liberals have long-known: Offering reality-based rebuttals to conservative lies only makes conservatives cling to those lies even harder. In essence, schooling conservatives makes them more stupid. From the Washington Post article on the study, which came out yesterday:

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 --...

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