"How The Mind Works"

Washington Post article on a study of the "persistence of myth":

The conventional response to myths and urban legends is to counter bad information with accurate information. But the new psychological studies show that denials and clarifications, for all their intuitive appeal, can paradoxically contribute to the resiliency of popular myths... The research is painting a broad new understanding of how the mind works.

(via /.)

Um, also...

Aug 31 - We Finally Found WMDs...at the UN (NY Post)

Sept 5 - Chemical 'WMD' found at U.N. may be little more than cleaner (NY Daily News)