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Why Debunking Myths About Vaccines Hasn’t Convinced Dubious Parents

Harvard Business Review

Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth and Jason Reifler of the University of Exeter have also documented an even more alarming tendency, which they call “ the backfire effect.” So repeating wrong information, even to debunk it, backfires. Heider created a short, simple animation of two triangles, a rectangle and a circle.

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