Did They Try to Convert You?

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i think they were impressed that i had been there amongst them for the whole first day. I mean, i don't think they expected that. They did want to hear what i had to say, but they would reveal more holes in their argument when i let them try to convert me. One of my favorite presentations was a fellow who claimed to be one. And he started off by saying that he wasn't a scientist and he didn't have any scientific training, but he did have a white lab coat. He went on to give a dog's breakfast of all the different anomalies that he purported to find in the idea of the global earth. Then mixed in with some things that he thought i

“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.