“Research that shows that the brain has to first accept a lie as true, only to analyze it, then refute it. Over time, the brain tires of that process and slowly starts to accept the lies as true. … What is most interesting is that processing falsehoods and processing certain types of satire appears to follow a very similar cognitive path.” Sophia McLennen looks at how this works, and argues that this is why the right hates political satire so much. (And satire worked so well in Weimar Germany, right?)