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{{cquote|researchers...found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
{{cquote|researchers...found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
—Boston Globe<ref>{{cite news |author=Joe Keohane |title=How facts backfire|newspaper=Boston Globe|publisher=Globe Newspaper Company |year=2010 }}</ref>}}
—Boston Globe<ref>{{cite news |author=Joe Keohane |title=How facts backfire|newspaper=Boston Globe|publisher=Globe Newspaper Company |year=2010 }}</ref>}}


{{cquote|the poor [in America] see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.<ref>{{cite book |author=Wright, Ronald |title=A Short History of Progress | year=2005 |page=124}}</ref>}}


{{cquote|Mortensen's passion for safeguarding the elaborate fantasy world in which his conception of the [U.S.] Constitution resides is greatly respected by his likeminded friends and relatives, many of whom have been known to repeat his unfounded assertions verbatim when angered.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Onion Inc|work=The Onion|title=Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be|date=November 14, 2009|url=http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-c,2849/}}</ref>}}
{{cquote|Mortensen's passion for safeguarding the elaborate fantasy world in which his conception of the [U.S.] Constitution resides is greatly respected by his likeminded friends and relatives, many of whom have been known to repeat his unfounded assertions verbatim when angered.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Onion Inc|work=The Onion|title=Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be|date=November 14, 2009|url=http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-c,2849/}}</ref>}}
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  1. ^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin; Babbage, Charles (1994). "V Difference Engine No. 1". Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. Pickering & Chatto Publishers. p. 67. ISBN 1-85196-040-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Joe Keohane (2010). "How facts backfire". Boston Globe. Globe Newspaper Company.
  3. ^ Wright, Ronald (2005). A Short History of Progress. p. 124.
  4. ^ "Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be". The Onion. Onion Inc. November 14, 2009.
  5. ^ Graham, Carol; Young, H. Peyton (June 23, 2003). "Ignorance Fills the Income Gulf". The Brookings Institution.
  6. ^ Nelson, Craig T. (May 28th, 2009). "Glenn Beck Program". Fox News. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "The Wikipedia FAQK". Wired. April 2006.