#1
Scholarly / institutional
Dan M. Kahan, "Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study,"
Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 8, No. 4 (July 2013), pp. 407–424. Journal:
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Chapter One: The Anatomy of Political Kool-Aid
These are the sources the Kool-Aid Laboratory used to examine this chapter. Every one is public. Check them yourself.
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#2
Primary record
Dan M. Kahan, "Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition,"
Cultural Cognition Project, Yale Law School, Working Paper (2017); available via SSRN (search author + title).
Public record — no single canonical web link; verify by citation above.
#3
Primary record
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General — "A Report of Investigation Into the Department's Release of Information Related to a Pennsylvania Election-Fraud Investigation," Report No. 24-082 (July 2024).
Documents the Luzerne County discarded-ballots matter and the handling of public statements; the FBI found a seasonal worker's mistake, not fraud.
#4
Scholarly / institutional
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Counsel (Jack Smith) — Final Report, Volume One: "Report on Efforts to Interfere with the Lawful Transfer of Power Following the 2020 Presidential Election…"
(137 pp.; released January 14, 2025). Primary document released by the Department of Justice. Full report and release: Coverage:
#5
Reporting
Open Letter — "Open Letter Advocating for an Anti-Racist Public Health Response to Demonstrations Against Systemic Injustice Occurring During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
(June 2020; 1,200+ public-health and infectious-disease professionals; organized by University of Washington infectious-disease experts). Text and coverage:
#6
Primary record
Office of the Director of National Intelligence — "Unclassified Summary of Assessment on COVID-19 Origins" (August 27, 2021)
and the updated "Declassified Assessment on COVID-19 Origins" (October 2021). Both the natural-exposure and laboratory-associated hypotheses were assessed plausible; the IC judged the virus was not developed as a bioweapon.
#7
Primary record
National Center for Education Statistics — NAEP Long-Term Trend Assessment Results: Reading and Mathematics, Age 9 (2022).
Age-9 scores fell 5 points in reading and 7 in mathematics versus 2020 — the largest reading decline since 1990 and the first-ever decline in mathematics.
#8
Primary record
National Center for Education Statistics — "The Nation's Report Card": 2022 NAEP Reading and Mathematics (main assessment, grades 4 and 8).
#9
Scholarly / institutional
Dan Goldhaber, Thomas J. Kane, Andrew McEachin, Emily Morton, Tyler Patterson & Douglas O. Staiger, "The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic,"
NBER Working Paper No. 30010 (May 2022); DOI 10.3386/w30010. Later published in American Economic Review: Insights (2023).