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The Well Never Runs Dry: Newsweek "Science" Editor Once Again Claims That Mental Illness Explains Republican Opposition to a DemocratSharon Begley, a vision in black I don't know if she's still their "science editor." She used to be. Here's Dr. Hot Tamale opining on your mental stability: "Rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief," he says, "people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe." And God knows, in the Internet age there is no dearth of sources to confirm even the most ludicrous claims (my favorite being that the moon landings were faked). "For the most part," says Hoffman, "people completely ignore contrary information" and are able to "develop elaborate rationalizations based on faulty information." Note that there is certainly a germ of truth in that -- but that applies to everyone. Including hardcore liberal partisans such as Dr. Va-Va Vavoom here. But she never gets around to mentioning that phenomenon when it comes to her fellow liberals. As I'll show later, she only starts discussing the irrational bits of the mind's software when she's explaining conservative beliefs and behavior. ... So, there you go. Mental processes that have gone off the rails. This is not exactly a new thesis for Newsweek's smoking-hot science editor. Indeed, she makes these claims every several months. Prompted by a new study or new claim of evolutionary psychology or new buzzword from pop-psych, Dr. Droolworthy rushes to use the new learning to explain... why conservatives are crazy. Sharon Begley, May 2007: Bush is mentally ill, suffering from delusions due to deep denial. Sharon Begley, June 2007: Democrats lose elections because they target the rational side of the brain, while Republicans target the irrational side. Sharon Begley, October 2007: Those who deny global warming are kooks and cranks like those nuts who deny the moon landing. Clearly, Dr. Sizzle-Pants is fond of using "science" to belittle her political opponents. She diagnoses supposed maladies of conservative thinking, but never examines, for example, Trutherism, or the plainly-insane passion that many liberals have for Obama (some seeming to believe he is actually at least a minor deity sent by God Himself to save us). Over and over again she returns to her idee fixe, that Republicans are simply irrational at best and mentally sick at worst. She's either a hack, both political and in terms of repeating herself as hacks tend to do, or she's suffering from a mental illness herself. Good Heavens You're Beautiful! Suggested by a commenter.
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