Study Shows Conservatives Ignore Facts More Than Liberals

...Even as Akin reaped a whirlwind of disdain and disgust, a new scientific paper has appeared with uncanny timing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, underscoring what is actually happening when people contort facts to justify their deep seated beliefs or moral systems. Perhaps most strikingly, one punch line of the new research is that political conservatives, like Akin, appear to do this significantly more than political liberals.

http://www.alternet.org/right-wing-psyc ... e-liberals

At last...Scientific proof that with conservatives, "We don' need no steenkin' facts..."

I am sure that is very reliable. Still I am listening to him right now in Toledo. He is sounding like a republican.

Ah yes the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science
a well known and respected publication.

Face it, logic and reality prove that neither side is any different in this behavior.

Blazer Bob wrote: I am sure that is very reliable. Still I am listening to him right now in Toledo. He is sounding like a republican.

How would you know? He is giving specifics... I'm still waiting for ANY specifics from the GOP...

"If we tell you what we'll do....we'll lose."