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: Discourse.netCan It Really Be that People Are More Credulous Today?
By Professor University of Miami School of Law
Boing Boing points to a study showing that the Placebo effect is getting stronger. I take this to mean that people today are more credulous.
Which may explain Fox ‘News’? How else to make sense of articles such as today’s NYT story on a good man driven to activism by total misinformation,
The Colliers are committed conservatives who have voted Republican in presidential elections since 1980. They receive much of their information from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh’s radio program and Matt Drudge’s Web site.
Full post as published by Discourse.net on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).
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