Study: Right More Likely To Twist Facts
In the heels of Rep. Todd Akin’s unscientific take on rape victims, comes a timely study.
…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.
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