"The experiment had revealed an “extremely undesirable, and previously unidentified, side effect of warnings: the more often older adults were told that a claim was false, the more likely they were to remember it erroneously as true after a three day delay,” they wrote. (While the researchers fixated on older adults, the data itself shows that this is a cross-generational issue.)

"People walked into that study pretty sure that shark fins didn’t treat arthritis. They were told repeatedly that shark fins do not treat arthritis. And they walked out of the study believing that shark fins treat arthritis.",,,

"We need to go on an informational diet. We need to become more discerning with what we want to know and what we need to know."

END FTFA

IOW follow Rolf Dobelli's advice and "Stop reading the news!":

https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Reading-News-information-overloa...

https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Reading-News-information-overloa...

TL;DR: a PDF: https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430337