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Comment by Anna3 on Do We Believe Everything We're Told? · 2007-10-11T05:13:26.000Z · LW · GW

So doesn't this tie in well with your previous article about the denier's dilemma? It seems, if Gilbert/Spinoza are right, that the CDC mythbusters problem of people mis-remembering as "true" the myths presented by the CDC, is an example of this mechanism (strengthened by reinforcement effects of re-encountering the myth).