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Why Climate Denialists are Blind to Facts and Reason: The Role of Ideology | 20 comments (20 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Personality (4.00 / 3)

I think you may find the work of psychologist Robert Altemeyer of interest. He defines the group that you are concerned with as "right wing authoritarians" and has found a high correlation between such ideologues and conservative social ideas.

He has a free, online book which summarizes his 40+ years of research on this topic. You can read it at theAuthoritarians.com

It seems to be a personality thing and as you have discovered debate is pointless.

Policies not Politics
---- Daily Landscape

by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Mon May 12th, 2008 at 10:02:05 PM EST

Thanks for the recommendation n/t (none / 0)

"My True Religion Is Kindness" -- The Dalai Lama

by JohnnyRook (johnnyrook1@gmail.com) on Mon May 12th, 2008 at 11:14:36 PM EST
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