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Mother Jones has a great article by Chris Mooney titled “The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science”.

The article provides a frustrating overview of why so many people who hold strong convictions on a particular subject such as climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers or creationists, cannot, and will not be convinced by scientific evidence.

(Hat tip to John Gruber at Daring Fireball.)

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