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Culture, history and society

The causes of science denial and how to combat it

11 Dec 2021
Taken from the December 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Dealing with deniers".

Rachel Brazil reviews How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre

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Listen up Lee McIntyre reports that some ways of responding to science deniers are effective at shifting their views. (Courtesy: iStock/IPGGutenbergUKLtd)
One of the first questions Lee McIntyre, a philosopher at Boston University, poses about those who i

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Rachel Brazil is a science writer based in London, UK, e-mail rachelbrazil@hotmail.com, Twitter @rachelbbrazil. She wrote the Physics World article “Fighting flat-Earth theory” (July 2020)
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