{"id":6011,"date":"2011-04-22T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2011-04-22T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T18:53:45","slug":"the-science-of-why-we-dont-believe-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/04\/22\/the-science-of-why-we-dont-believe-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"Chris Mooney Article\" href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/denial-science-chris-mooney\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science<\/strong><\/a> by Chris Mooney could have the subtitle, &#8220;Why Steve&#8217;s Politics Blog is completely ineffective.&#8221;\u00a0 Perhaps the solution is to follow the prescription at the end of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can follow the logic to its conclusion: Conservatives are more likely to embrace climate science if it comes to them via a business or religious leader, who can set the issue in the context of different values than those from which environmentalists or scientists often argue. Doing so is, effectively, to signal a d\u00e9tente in what Kahan has called a &#8220;culture war of fact.&#8221; In other words, paradoxically, you don&#8217;t lead with the facts in order to convince. You lead with the values\u2014so as to give the facts a fighting chance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science by Chris Mooney could have the subtitle, &#8220;Why Steve&#8217;s Politics Blog is completely ineffective.&#8221;\u00a0 Perhaps the solution is to follow the prescription at the end of the article: You can follow the logic to its conclusion: Conservatives are more likely to embrace climate science if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}