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- How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  An interesting and timely op-ed piece in the Times covers a phenomenon, known as source amnesia, that can lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true. With time, this misremembering only gets worse. A false statement from a noncredible source that is at first not believed can gain credibility during the months it takes to reprocess memories. The article presents the science behind the success of swift boat ads and other campaign lies.
  
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- Cheney ties Iraq, Qaeda again after question from his own biographer
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Rawstory
  The person who first prompted Cheney about the link was right-wing columnist and official Cheney biographer Stephen Hayes, who wrote a book entitled 'The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America'...
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- Rapid Pentagon Report on Saddam's Iraq Censored?
  Posted by okami from Blogs.abcnews
  ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention.  This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online.
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- The Age Blogs: Management Line
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  Why are there so many lies on CVs?
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- The New York Times has to correct itself again this time on Iran
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  On Monday, June 25 the New York Times published an “Editor’s Note” correcting an article in its Sunday edition. The note hardly answers the questions raised by the “corrected” article.
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- Ex-CIA director Tenet admits lies told on war
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  With the publication of his new memoir, At the Center of the Storm, released Monday, and in an appearance on the CBS television new program “60 Minutes” the night before, former CIA director George Tenet has become the latest former official to admit publicly that the Bush administration launched its war against Iraq based upon false pretenses and manipulated intelligence.
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- Blair Busted
  Posted by Damianmann from The Independent
  The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now
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BruceMills comments on:
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

The way our minds are wired matches the great dictum to not fight the darkness with the light, just make the light shine brighter. Science is so cool.

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6:48 pm 7/06/08
saraearthmama2 comments on:
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

Great story. I blog about food issues, and deal with this sort of "information filtering" all the time. This story was the basis of my 4th of July post.

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7:30 am 7/05/08
magneticsorting comments on:
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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12:02 am 7/01/08
Tony comments on:
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

very good. thanks

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6:53 pm 6/29/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

So why are the Swift Boat ads the lies and John Kerry’s memories the "truth" ?

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9:22 am 6/28/08
martingwalker comments on:
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

Yes, this is a fascinating insight into a brain mechanism that can result in faulty memory.

I’m intrigued as to why memory functions in this way:

It would seem that as the human mind evolved it needed to be able to process and recall a lot of information. Some of this information would have been ultimately disposable, but very important and highly context sensitive (‘I should stay clear of this part of the forest because I heard a bear growling here five minutes ago.’) Having a holding area like the hippocampus would allow us to store a lot of temporary data, much of which would be used briefly in a focused way, then let go.

Then there would be another class of information that we would need to recall over and again (‘Red berries make you sick,’) without the fuss of recalling the context — this becomes the ‘rule set’ by which we live.

This second class of information can help us live safely and effectively. We build up our rule set and stick to it. And, if we’ve processed the original information correctly, the rule set will tend to do well by us. But, as Wang and Aamodt point out, when we’re misinformed or when we don’t process the original information correctly, or when lies get repeated often enough without a conscious internal effort to contradict or doubt, we end up believing falsehoods.

Their advice: to be conscious about what we believe and contemplate the reverse.

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4:41 am 6/28/08
papadavid comments on:
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

...oh,............so: 2 2, uh….. IS 5. oh, yeah. that’s right. i remember now….........

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3:21 pm 6/27/08