Blog 3 : "I know the truth"

       In "I know the truth", JEFFREY KLUGER believes people have often been easily fooled by untrue statements or beliefs such as President Obama was born in Kenya or HIV is a government invention to remove unpleasant minority groups.  JEFFREY added that among those nonsense facts were those as to the Islamic Cultural Center planned for Park Place in Lower Manhattan at which researchers, R. Kelly Garset and Erik Nisbet from Ohio state University have conducted a study to determine how sticky were those assertions and what it might take to disabuse people from them.  For the study, 750 people were selected to read rebuttals of rumors from two different news papers.  Among them, 28% rejected the rumors and 35% acknowledged that the new information had some merit.  As conclusions, the reseachers found out that people beliefs could be easily manipulate with pictures and quotes, but the most disturbing facts was that only one third of the subjects were willing to reverse their beliefs. JEFFREY KLUGER concludes by saying that it was up to people to make up their mind as to facts.