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Climate Deniers Intimidate Journal into Retracting Paper that Finds They Believe Conspiracy Theories
2014-04-03 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: In February 2013, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a peer-reviewed paper which found that people who reject climate science are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Predictably enough, those people didn't like it. The paper, which I helped to peer-review, is called "Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation'. In it, cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues survey and analyze the outcry generated...
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