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The next issue of Psychological Science includes a piece ( http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/03/25/0956797612457686.abstr
act) on new research ( http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/labs/cogscience/documents/Lskyet
alPsychScienceinPressClimateConspiracy.pdf) which finds how the disbelief of climate change is found among the same people who also believe other conspiracy theories. The fact that climate change is backed by thousands of peer-reviewed research papers with gigabytes upon gigabytes of data to back it up means nothing to them. They put it with conspiracies that have no credible evidence, many times with only some blogger or YouTube video proclaiming it as true.

What the researchers did was to survey the readers of eight websites discussing climate change. The questionnaire was taken by a wide variety of readers, with over 1000 people returning their survey. What their research uncovered was that those who disbelieved in climate change being human-caused also were likely to endorse conspiracy theories as well as support laissez-faire free-market economic concepts.

In response after response, they found that if a person believed in conspiracies, such as the moon landings being faked, that the CIA killed the Rev. Martin-Luther King Jr, or that cigarettes do not cause cancer; and it did not matter the conspiracy either, from HIV conspiracies to 9/11, if one could fall into a belief of such conspiracy, they were likely to be victim to multiple.

Their adherence to laissez-faire markets is also telling. The historically proven failures of the laissez-faire system, with its regular cycle of booms and busts, are lost on these people. They believe with all of their hearts the fantasy that the invisible hand of the market will resolve all problems. This of course flies in the fact of history, which demonstrates that those with power will abuse it.

The paper reveals that people who reject climate change are doing it not out of any scientific basis, or even out of skepticism. They are rejecting it based on ideological principle only. As a result, arguing with them using only logic, or facts, will never work.

Politically motivated private interests who seek to exploit them for their own gain have wildly adopted conspiracy theories. Those who adhere to the conspiracies are slaves of their own ignorance, and cannot see their own enslavement. And there are those who will always seek to ensnare more in this mind-trap. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/21/tinfoil-hat-alert-climate-chan
ge-deniers-easily-fooled/#ixzz2WyANPo8v

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