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In reply to the discussion: Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? [View all]yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)72. It goes against their reliigion!
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My own uninformed opinion is that its influenced by poor science reporting and lack...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#5
That's like "my cancer isn't spreading as fast as the doctors said, so I must not have cancer"
progressoid
Mar 2016
#20
1. They're not reasonable and 2. An outsider describes it best - Richard Dawkins said
MillennialDem
Mar 2016
#17
I don't think numbers have changed, with the intertubes though every fucking idiot has a voice
snooper2
Mar 2016
#40
It's amazing that the press miscovers most actual science, and then hypes the junk.
HuckleB
Mar 2016
#43
It took me about 3 years to convince a friend of my who is smart that "reality TV"
LiberalArkie
Mar 2016
#51
To begin with, science is often not very well taught in high school in the first place.
SheilaT
Mar 2016
#55
You've outlined the ways that pseudoscience promoters push mistrust of science.
HuckleB
Mar 2016
#64
And then you continue to add to the ways that pseudoscience demonizes logic and science.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#80
and you are labeling my argument without supplying a cogent and coherent rebuttal.
kwassa
Apr 2016
#91
You don't have an argument. The "science was wrong fallacy" is, well, a fallacy.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#99
You failed to point out that its the scientific process that corrects for these errors...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#87
If they are doing it due to conflicting evidence or the lack of evidence, that's one thing...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#92
Because there is no law in nature that states people have to agree with you or use common sense.
Rex
Mar 2016
#68
Why do so many reasonable people think they will win the lottery when the value goes up?
Rex
Apr 2016
#88
This is a large part of the problem, one reason it is hard to talk logic to RWingers.
Rex
Apr 2016
#117
To some degree, the "everybody wins" mentality says that the opinion of people who
Thor_MN
Apr 2016
#118