BS: Just the facts

Subject: RE: BS: Just the facts
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 12:29 PM

Some people still think it is a fact that the sun appears in the east (what ever that is) travels across the sky and disappears in the west!

Subject: RE: BS: Just the facts
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 09:42 AM

Absolutely right, Ed - for a significant segment of the population myth and bullshit will win over fact and reality hands down, every time.

This may be unfortunate - and a growing phenomenon - but its not news.

Subject: RE: BS: Just the facts
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 09:41 AM

I suspect many will see the reinforcement of beliefs, opinions and notions by cherry picking and accepting biased and loosely formed "facts" in others, not themselves.

Subject: BS: Just the facts
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 09:01 AM

We often see people on Mudcat refer to "the facts". A good question is what are acceptable facts? It seems the definition on what is a fact differs depend on what your existing beliefs on a tooic are. Below is an interesting link on the difficulty in changing such beliefs with "facts", nomatter how reliable they may be.


The Backfire Effect