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() Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so. Full Story »

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by J Sinclaire - Nov. 4, 2009

This article will have resonance for those of us who were flabbergasted at the polls showing how so many people believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9:11 and the many other lies of the Bush administration and Fox News. I imagine more will be written on the subject in the years to come, but this seems to me to be one of the first articles exploring the psychology behind the phenomenon.

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