How Bias Bends Fact, Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Jonah Lehrer's two cents:

Unless we engage with those uncomfortable data points, those stats
which suggest that George W. Bush wasn't all bad, or that Obama isn't
such a leftist radical, then our beliefs will never improve. (It
doesn't help, of course, that our news sources are increasingly
segregated along ideological lines.) So here's my theorem: The value of
a political pundit is directly correlated with his or her willingness
to admit past error.

George W...