You Thought Wrong. Here's Why.


	You Thought Wrong. Here's Why.

Matthew Herper

6-28-2008 11:52 AM

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From The New York Times, by neuroscientist Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt, a former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience. A quick explanation of why rumors get remembered as facts.

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