Mitt Romney has just this week declared he's going try to to lie his way into the White House - and new science shows conservatives will believe his lies even more when they're refuted - no matter how outrageous they are.

Joe Madison, Joe Madison Show & Human rights activist joins Thom Hartmann. What fuels racism and police brutality in America? Is it politcal rhetoric from the right - or something more deep-seated? And what can we do about it? We'll pose those questions and more to Joe Madison in tonight's Conversations with Great Minds.

The secret weapon Conservatives are using to take down public universities in America. Conservatives are arming up for their war on public universities, trying to de-fund them, destroy them, and replace them with for-profit colleges. Think it's impossible? They did the same thing during the Reagan years with our national system of non-profit hospitals, which have nearly all now been replaced with for-profit hospitals, which is a large part of why our healthcare costs are soaring and hospital executives are suddenly multimillionaires. So the war is on to destroy our state colleges and promote more for-profit colleges. And their primary weapon of choice ISN'T budget cuts to education or tax breaks to for-profit universities. No - their primary weapon of choice is frames.

You may have noticed over the last few years that the price of honey - like many food products - has gone up. This is mainly due to a loss of honeybee colonies - the result of a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. And it doesn't just raise the cost of honey - it could lead to famines. Dave Goulson - from the University of Stirling in Great Britain - and a team of fellow researchers have shown that pesticides - including widely used neonicotinoid insecticides - may be to blame.