Subject: "Conservatives
Don't Deny Climate Science Because They're Ignorant. They Deny It
Because of Who They Are," by Chris Mooney, June 26, 2014
In addition to the link for the scientific paper itself, there's another link in the above subject line article that I particularly recommend following when you get to it: "....Dan Kahan, recently profiled in depth by Ezra Klein in a much read Vox article aptly titled 'How politics makes us stupid.....,'" April 6, 2014.
Just as a matter of interest for yourself and aside from anything else--and you don't need to tell me or anyone else what your answer was--see how you do on that skin cream test results question. And hey, if you get it wrong you can just be more careful next time. Please don't let it determine your life. And by the way, I don't think your answer when it's about skin cream means anything about party affiliation. :-)
Gotta warn ya, the podcast colorfully linked at the bottom of the main article here got so stupid I could hardly stand it and stopped listening to it. They played a clip with Oprah Winfrey and then went off to discuss what to me was clearly a complete misunderstanding / misrepresentation of what Oprah had said She was only stating her own personal view, and her view was being understood by the person she was speaking with, so truly there was no huge social problem. If you play the clip at all I suggest stopping when you get to the topic of Oprah. The discussion about the moose population had been very interesting.
Larry
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The question of how a relatively small group of cloistered gangsters can so consistently destroy everything they touch (except the bank accounts of their benefactors) and still remain in power gets to the heart of the American conundrum. --Rob Urie (link)
Above all there is no need to become one of the haters no matter how many of them there may be. We can still have fun without that! Sometimes it is a bit of work keeping that in mind.--LAS
In addition to the link for the scientific paper itself, there's another link in the above subject line article that I particularly recommend following when you get to it: "....Dan Kahan, recently profiled in depth by Ezra Klein in a much read Vox article aptly titled 'How politics makes us stupid.....,'" April 6, 2014.
Just as a matter of interest for yourself and aside from anything else--and you don't need to tell me or anyone else what your answer was--see how you do on that skin cream test results question. And hey, if you get it wrong you can just be more careful next time. Please don't let it determine your life. And by the way, I don't think your answer when it's about skin cream means anything about party affiliation. :-)
Gotta warn ya, the podcast colorfully linked at the bottom of the main article here got so stupid I could hardly stand it and stopped listening to it. They played a clip with Oprah Winfrey and then went off to discuss what to me was clearly a complete misunderstanding / misrepresentation of what Oprah had said She was only stating her own personal view, and her view was being understood by the person she was speaking with, so truly there was no huge social problem. If you play the clip at all I suggest stopping when you get to the topic of Oprah. The discussion about the moose population had been very interesting.
Larry
--
The question of how a relatively small group of cloistered gangsters can so consistently destroy everything they touch (except the bank accounts of their benefactors) and still remain in power gets to the heart of the American conundrum. --Rob Urie (link)
Above all there is no need to become one of the haters no matter how many of them there may be. We can still have fun without that! Sometimes it is a bit of work keeping that in mind.--LAS
