Ogre-oid: Six Months Too Late - Times Retracts "Climategate" "Story"

The Times of London (owned by Rupert Murdoch) has decided maybe there wasn't so much to those "climategate" letters as they pretended there was.  Actually, they say now, there really was nothing to them, just like every sane person that looked at them thought.  [more here, here, and here]

I would like to quote the Newsweek article about why this retraction will make no difference because it's an excellent summation of what's known about this:  "One of the strongest, most-repeated findings in the psychology of belief is that once people have been told X, especially if X is shocking, if they are later told, 'No, we were wrong about X,' most people still believe X."  This effect is even more pronounced amongst conservatives.