Jennifer Senior: Why Fox News is still a coronavirus bubble

Back in the 1950s, psychologist Leon Festinger came up with cognitive dissonance theory, which can essentially be described as the very human desire to reconcile the irreconcilable. Our brains, he realized, will go to baroque lengths — do magic tricks, even — to preserve the integrity of our worldview, even when the facts inconveniently club us over the head with a 2-by-4.Festinger’s most famous case study was of a cult that believed life on Earth would come to an end in a grea