The study was all done on line, and it was done with people who were hearing this information for the first time. And so my hypothesesis is would this still work if you went after the hard cor deniers? The people who had been marinating in disinformation for ten years. Could could this work against them there? As i said, your paper was helpful to me, because the approach just makes sense,. You have to be calm, you have to be respectful.
“Climate change is a hoax — and so is coronavirus.” “Vaccines are bad for you.” These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed — they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can we convince such people otherwise? How can we get them to change their minds and accept the facts when they don’t believe in facts? In this conversation based on his new book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it’s important to do so.