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Study finds political bias isn't all that shapes how we perceive truth.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs, a new study suggests.
And those who rely on concrete evidence to form their beliefs are less likely to have misperceptions about high-profile scientific and political issues, said Kelly Garrett, the lead researcher and a professor of communication at The Ohio State University.
Scientific and political misperceptions are dangerously common in the U.S. today. The willingness of large minorities of Americans to embrace falsehoods and conspiracy theories poses a threat to society's ability to make well-informed decisions about pressing matters," Garrett said.
"A lot of attention is paid to our political motivations, and while political bias is a reality, we shouldn't lose track of the fact that people have other kinds of biases too.
Comment: Given the amount of pedophilia that the political elite is directly responsible for, one has to wonder to what degree police efforts are being stymied - from orders above - and to what degree this is generally an 'across the board' reflection of societal pathology and depravity. In either or both cases, it seems that the UK is not the only Western country to be seeing such a plague:
Swedish police unable to 'cope' with massive numbers of sexual assaults stemming from migrant influx