The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link
Through her, the aliens had given the precise date of an Earth-rending cataclysm: December 21, 1954. Some of Martin's followers quit their jobs and sold their property, expecting to be rescued by a flying saucer when the continent split asunder and a new Full Story »
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I thought this was an excellent article. It is not about right or left political viewpoints but about human behavior and refusal to accept facts due to patterns of cognitive bias that are held by many.