Birther Orly Taitz gets her court date...sort of

(Cross-posted at the Princeton Election Consortium)

Back on the false-belief beat...sort of.

I've previously written about false belief formation from the standpoint of neuroscience. One current prominent category is the delusion, mostly on the right, that President Obama is thought to be hiding something really big. These days it's his citizenship: "Birthers" claim that he is not a Hawaii-born US citizen eligible for the presidency (never mind the 1961 newspaper announcements and this thorough debunking).

And now the queen of the Birthers, Orly Taitz, has finally managed to get a court date.