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Climate Change and Well-Informed Denial
On climate change, we’re politically polarized—which would be bad enough, but that’s not all. The hole we’ve dug is even deeper—as new research clearly suggests.There’s yet another study out on...
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“A Little Knowledge”: Why The Biggest Problem With Climate “Skeptics” May Be...
Last week, an intriguing study emerged from Dan Kahan and his colleagues at Yale and elsewhere–finding that knowing more about science, and being better at mathematical reasoning, was related to more...
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New Proof: Republicans Really Are Anti-Science
As readers know, I’m a regular monitor of polls capturing various aspects of the public’s views on science. These polls consistently show that for the most part, even if people don’t know a ton about...
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The Polarizing Poles: Yet Another Study Shows That More Knowledgeable...
Bloggers and commentators have been talking a lot lately about a recent study, by Dan Kahan and colleagues in Nature Climate Change, capturing what I call the “smart idiot” effect: Conservatives who...
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