backfire
Original: backfire on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Do you believe in the "backfire effect"?
Panel 2:
Bald man: Of course. People have beliefs, and when they hear contrary views they dig in their heels.
Panel 3:
Woman: There are several studies now that appear to disprove it.
Panel 4:
Bald man (angry, pointing): Then they are lies.
Votey:
Bald man (agitated): If only you'd gotten to me before I read about the backfire effect effect...
Woman: Do you believe in the "backfire effect"?
Panel 2:
Bald man: Of course. People have beliefs, and when they hear contrary views they dig in their heels.
Panel 3:
Woman: There are several studies now that appear to disprove it.
Panel 4:
Bald man (angry, pointing): Then they are lies.
Votey:
Bald man (agitated): If only you'd gotten to me before I read about the backfire effect effect...
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a dark-haired woman asks a bald man in a suit, "Do you believe in the 'backfire effect'?" Panel 2: the man replies, "Of course. People have beliefs, and when they hear contrary views they dig in their heels." Panel 3: the woman says, "There are several studies now that appear to disprove it." Panel 4: the man, now angry and pointing, declares, "Then they are lies" - ironically demonstrating the backfire effect by digging in when confronted with evidence against it. Votey aftercomic: the man, looking frazzled and clutching his head, says, "If only you'd gotten to me before I read about the backfire effect effect..." - a recursive joke about reacting against evidence about reacting against evidence.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.