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This explains a lot

January 30, 2006 |

Using M.R.I. scanners, neuroscientists have now tracked what happens in the politically partisan brain when it tries to digest damning facts about favored candidates or criticisms of them. The process is almost entirely emotional and unconscious, the researchers report, and there are flares of activity in the brain’s pleasure centers when unwelcome information is being rejected. …
conjectures and refutations

Matt has found the scientific basis for the echo chamber. And, I fear, the Blogging Tories.

It will be interesting to see whether all the various sides of the Canadian blogosphere will continue to write as hard after the election.


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  1. Alan on January 30, 2006 10:31 pm

    I think it is only fair to say that I am victimized by this as well and hope there is a NuCon general subsidy for all who, like me, suffer from the affliction… if only under the guise of helping the family which has to deal with those members of pajamastan in their homes.

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