Fact Checking: Accepting and rejecting statements that are true or false.
Channel: Desertphile
Date: 2014-09-19

Studies and surveys show how humans select as true or false that which they wish to be true or false, and when presented with evidence to the contray of their belief, hold that belief stronger when on one side of the political spectrum.

The article:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/inquiring-minds-brendan-nyhan-fact-checking-2014-election

The Backfile Effect:

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/brendan-nyhan-backfire-effects-facts

The study:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Enyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf