The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science
How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the end of the world. By Chris Mooney | Mon Apr. 18, 2011 3:00 AM PDT “A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.” So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger [1] (PDF), in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial—the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today,…read more