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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Convener:  Benjamin D Santer, LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ann H Reid, National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Introductory Remarks
10:25 AM
U52A-01
 
What Counts as "Truth" -- Reason Versus Emotion in Vaccine Decision Making
Seth Mnookin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
11:00 AM
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.
Robert N. Proctor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
11:35 AM
U52A-03
 
But it’s “Only a Theory!” Responding to Evolution Doubt, Distortion, and Denial.
Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
12:10 PM
 
Concluding Remarks
 
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