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September 26, 2016 07:48 am PDT
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Climate denial's internal contradictions spring from a need to defend economic doctrine
A trio of scholars who study the psychology and philosophy of science have written a fantastic paper for Springer's Sythese looking at the way that climate change conspiracy theorists construct their view of the world, and how these conspiracy theories contain self-contradictory theses (like the idea that climate change can't be predicted and the idea that the data shows we're actually headed for an ice-age). (more…)
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