Monday, March 25, 2013

Conspiracy Ideation . . . or a refusal to accept facts

Once again I'm going to repost an interesting article from the folks at SkepticalScience.com since it cuts to the core of what I'm appreciating more and more as the real issue we need to face today.  

You see, as the evidence get's more and more overwhelming, the obstinence of denialists has been getting more and more belligerent and below the belt. 


The debate has lost all pretense about struggling to better understand our global heat distribution engine (climate), and has turned into a 

no-holds-bared brawl by denialists within the blogosphere and other media outlets.

If you are interested in the human nature behind these dynamics, check out this article.


{Thank you SkepticalScience.com for allowing folks like me to repost your excellent and informative climate education articles ! }





Recursive Fury: Facts and misrepresentations (via Skeptical Science)
Posted on 21 March 2013 by John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky Our paper Recursive fury: conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation has been published. The paper analyzed the public discourse in response to an earlier article by Lewandowsky, Oberauer, and Gignac…

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