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Lee McIntyre: Talking to Science Deniers

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CHAPTER

The Secret to a Successful Conversation

The secret is to fight your own instinct to want to be right, and just tell the other person, often that if they don't agree with you, walk away. Shoving facts own somebody's throat just does not work. I had one friend suggest to me that it was probably easier to talk to a stranger who didn't trust you than a family member who did. But i'll tell you, if you read the anecdotal accounts, in writing this book, i read all the anecdotal accounts i could,. because there's really no scientific literature on this of the andi vaxers and the climate denyers who changed their mind. They would use what engagement with someone that they grew to

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