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Misinformation: Seeing Is Believing

By John M. Grohol, PsyD
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Seeing Is Believing

On Sunday, Newsweek magazine retracted an earlier report that U.S. interrogators at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a copy of the Qur’an down a toilet. The initial report is credited with sparking deadly anti-American riots in Afghanistan and, …

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Misinformation: Seeing Is Believing

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  1. Chief of Staff Myers stated that the rioting was not caused by the article.

  2. Indeed, it does not, perhaps, take research to know that, unfortunately, most people believe most things on or in the news…

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