The late Senate sage Daniel Patrick Moynihan was wrong when he famously observed, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Clearly Moynihan hadn't seen Donald Trump in ...

Just the facts, ma’am. Such requests for the truth seemed much simpler when Sgt. Joe Friday stated them in his monotone matter-of-factness on the classic TV show “Dragnet.” He asked for the ...

We also do the same with facts: When confronted with facts we disagree with, we often do not change our perceptions. Past research suggested the possibility that fact-checking could lead to a ...

Probably not, if you depend on the mainstream media for your news. The media don’t merely ignore facts, they suppress facts. Millions of people saw the videotape of the beating of Rodney King.

Ignorance is an opinion lacking information. Stupidity is an opinion that ignores fact.” One major political party, right-wing media outlets and tens of millions of Americans have apparently ...

Websites on logical fallacies contain lists of ways that speakers can get us to ignore facts and be persuaded by illogical points or irrelevant factors. Or sometimes an interviewee may grab at ...

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It means, in other words, that you should believe women—not because you have an obligation to ignore the facts, but because the facts say women aren’t lying.

Those are simply the facts. In assessing this presidential election, it would not be “reality-based” to ignore them. That doesn’t mean that this election will be the kind of landslide we saw ...

Now, these are facts. I can't do any better than that. Now for Mr. Sanders, who I generally respect, he cannot ignore these facts. Now, I do expect him to go on about corporate greed — that ...

Easily accessible facts don’t support such nonsense. But the second reason is the truly disappointing one. Given my social circles, I most often hear black Americans making these ugly comments.

More frequent high-tide coastal flooding and permanent shoreline creep are facts. Yet, some people and leaders continue to ignore these facts and deny that global warming is occurring. Why?