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<br>There are 5 messages totalling 310 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Glass
<br>  2. There's a Spy in your midst (2)
<br>  3. Rock and Roll (continued)
<br>  4. Trucking
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<br>Date:    Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:06:24 -0400
<br>From:    Alice Faber <faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: Glass
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<br>Bethany said:
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<br>| NPR is doing a report on Glass (who fabricated the anecdotes in The New
<br>| Republic and others pubs) right now -- one person spoke of the fabricated
<br>| anecdotes as false "on their face." I remain interested in knowing about
<br>| research detailng how we know that anecdotes are false "on their face" --
<br>| is this a possible diss. topic for some sharp student?
<br>
<br>I suspect that at least one contributing factor in the case of Glass'
<br>fabrications, and those others (e.g., the Washington Post stories about drug
<br>sales withing sight of the Capitol), is a basic belief that these publications
<br>check their facts and that if it's in the newspaper, it must be so. Or,
<br>alternatively, you can't believe anything you read in the paper, because the
<br>liberal (or conservative, take your pick) powers don't want you to know what's
<br>really going on.
<br>
<br>That being said, I think it would be very interesting to read the New Republic
<br>pieces that we now know were fabricated to see if there are internal features
<br>that *should* have made it obvious that there was a problem with the accuracy
<br>of the articles.
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<br>I suspect also that if there is research concerning people's willingness to
<br>form and hold beliefs that are contradicted by very simple observation, it
<br>will be in the field of social psychology.
<br>
<br>Alice Faber
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