If I had to pick one thing in our society that worries me the most these days it would be this mentality of "what I believe is more important than the truth so

If I had to pick one thing in our society that worries me the most these days it would be this mentality of "what I believe is more important than the truth so that makes it ok to bend the truth to fit my beliefs" I really began to notice it during this election season and even made a post on my blog a while back: http://www.tomstechblog.com/post/Why-I-Dont-Trust-Polls-(and-What-We-Should-Do-About-It).aspx http://www.tomstechblog.com/post/Why-I-Dont-Trust-Polls-(and... (please excuse the inadvertent plug, I don't think there's any way to post images here) To me this news about medical studies represents the same mentality but at a much more dangerous level. People willing to twist medical facts in order to support the conclusion they went in trying to prove. I think our culture needs to really look at the value we put on "truth" and start judging those who try to hide it much more harshly.