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#539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know

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Is Deliberate Ignorance a Phenomenon in Science?

D deliberate ignorance is a phenomenon that pops up in various places when you think about science. For instance there are certain kinds of scientific endeavors that we don't want to see realized. There's also a deliberate ignorance when it comes to possibly difficult findings of signs that we may want to know or not want to know so for instance the question of do you want to find out to what extent our human behavior has contributed to climate change could well be one example.

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