[asg70]

http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers ... -ignorance

I would expand this topic to represent why it is people have difficulty following the rigors of objective scientific method, therefore they either become denialists on one end or.....they are swayed by fast-crash pseudo-science on the other.

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')they 'cherry pick' the facts and studies that back up what they already believe to be true."
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where is this denial of science coming from? A big part of the problem, the researchers found, is that people associate scientific conclusions with political or social affiliations.
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scientific facts are being wielded like weapons in a struggle for cultural supremacy

[jedrider]

I've come to the sad conclusion that people do AND believe what makes them happy. You would have to change their reward basis to change their minds. Good luck with that.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', '
')Feel free to rebut.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', ' ')a website who's posters make your case for you, and have been doing so for longer than a decade.