U52A:
Understanding Why People Reject Sound Scientific Information and How Scientists Can Respond

Session ID#: 2671

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
103 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Benjamin D Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, History of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ann H Reid, National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Benjamin D Santer, LLNL, Livermore, United States
Co-conveners:  Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, History of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ann H Reid, National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA, United States
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Introductory Remarks
After the storm: Lessons learned from the IPCC’s “discernible human influence” finding
U52A-02
Cigarette makers pioneered many of our black arts of disinformation, including the funding of research to distract from the hazards of smoking. Ten Nobel prizes were the result. By funding distraction research, the cigarette industry became an important source of academic corruption, helping also to forge other forms of denialism on a global scale. (17633)
Robert N. Proctor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
U52A-03
But it’s “Only a Theory!” Responding to Evolution Doubt, Distortion, and Denial. (Invited) (17680)
Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Concluding Remarks
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