There's a lot of good value in You Are Not So Smart's take on the Backfire Effect:
The Misconception: When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking.
The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.
Lots of people are blogging and tweeting about it, so it's worth remembering that the excellent Bob Carroll did a nice piece on it at the Skeptics Dictionary a while back.
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I was browsing through some old notes when I found this - I think I wrote it in sheer exasperation after yet another email from a production company demanding I work for nothing because, gee whiz, everyone wants to be in TV, right?
Can you touch your toes? Seems like an easy thing to do for those of us who have the flexibility.
"I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed.