re: #27 publicityStunted

I would like to add that there’s a huge, huge difference between people who are genuinely confused, and the willfully ignorant. How do you spot that difference? Easy - if you patiently explain the facts using language and terms that are accessible, genuinely confused people will modify their position accordingly. The willfully ignorant will ignore all evidence that contradicts their beliefs, and continue spouting their BS as if it had never been refuted at all.

Willfully ignorant global warming deniers are no better than 9/11 truthers, moon-landing-was-fakers, rabid anti-vaxxers and holocaust revisionists.

I have an example of what willful ignorance looks like. My stepdad believes that the frequency absorption spectrum of a gas might be dependent entirely upon volume, not temperature or pressure induced phase change (making it not a gas anymore), just volume. This is how he gets around CO2 induced AGW. Now he’s not stupid, we’re talking about a man that holds a Ph.D in psychology, went to Bronx Science, is highly intelligent. He believes this simply because he wants to, he didn’t learn it anywhere, he just made it up because it allows him to get around the following elementary level science experiment:

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