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Neurologically Evidence of Bias

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Was wandering around online and found an interesting opinion article about biases.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/20/opinion/meyer/main584753.shtml
Don't really have anything poignant to say about it, just thought it aptly described what people can be like when they're talking about politics. I guess I know what my brain is doing whenever I decide to skim past one of ptsdkid's posts.
 
pretty interesting. science has verified what we all already knew (about our political enemies).
 
I saw an article on a similar study a few months ago.. might have been the same one... probably was. Very interesting. Explains a lot.

In Jon Stewart's book "America" there's hilarious diagrams of a pundit's brain, the partisan brain (left) and the partisan brain (right.)
 
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This article came to mind when I was reading some of the 'debates' going on in the polls section. Maybe someday, someone will invent a device that inhibits those sections of the brain. It would be quite amusing to watch a debate stripped of everything but logic and reasoning, although I think such a device just might prove fatal to some of the posters around here.
 
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