When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations

by Brent S. Steel and Erika Allen Wolters

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This book reveals how embedded beliefs more so than a lack of scientific knowledge and understanding are creating a cognitive bias toward information that coincides with personal beliefs rather than scientific consensus-and that this anti-science bias exists among liberals as well as conservatives.

In 2010, an outbreak of whooping cough in California infected more than 8,000 people, resulting in the hospitalization of more than 800...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:B0CDV4XK13

ISBN13:9798765115374

Release Date:November 2023

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.62 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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