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Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus. [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2022 Despite decades of concerted efforts to communicate to the public on important scientific issues pertaining to the environment and public health, gaps between public acceptance and the scientific consensus on these issues remain stubborn. One strategy for dealing with this shortcoming has been to focus on the existence of the scientific consensus ...
Slater MH, Huxster JK, Scholfield ER.
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Changes in perceived scientific consensus shift beliefs about climate change and GM food safety. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus, a sizable minority of people doubt that human activity is causing climate change. Communicating the existence of a scientific consensus has been suggested as a way to correct individuals' misperceptions about
John R Kerr, Marc Stewart Wilson
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The scientific consensus on climate change as a gateway belief: experimental evidence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 There is currently widespread public misunderstanding about the degree of scientific consensus on human-caused climate change, both in the US as well as internationally.
Sander L van der Linden +3 more
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The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation. [PDF]
Am Sociol Rev, 2010 This article engages with problems that are usually opaque: What trajectories do scientific debates assume, when does a scientific community consider a proposition to be a fact, and how can we know that? We develop a strategy for evaluating the state of scientific contestation on issues.
Shwed U, Bearman PS.
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Social Influence, 2019 This study examined the impact of presenting scientific and social consensus information together on people’s scientific beliefs when the two types of consensus information contradict each other.
Keiichi Kobayashi
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Strong correlational but no causal evidence on the link between the perception of scientific consensus and support for vaccination. [PDF]
PLoS ONEWe examine the relationships between the perception of the scientific consensus regarding vaccines, and vaccine attitudes and intentions (N total = 2,362) in the context of COVID-19 disease.
Gabriela Czarnek, Małgorzata Kossowska
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Climate science curricula in Canadian secondary schools focus on human warming, not scientific consensus, impacts or solutions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change poses severe risks to human and natural systems, many young Canadian adults do not view it as a major issue.
Seth Wynes, Kimberly A Nicholas
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Beyond Nonpartisan Discourses: Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times [PDF]
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2020 The majority of scientists agree on climate change and on the most daunting environmental problems humans are facing today. Moved by a commendable desire to contribute to the solution of these problems, several scientists have decided to speak up ...
Marco Armiero
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Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, 2021 In the international climate regime, consensus can be approached from different angles of analysis which are not unrelated, between the construction of consensus (scientific, political) and its formalization (expertise, legal consensus).
Amy Dahan, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois
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Quel(s) consensus au sujet du recours à l’ingénierie climatique ?
Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, 2021 At the international level, the solutions proposed by climate engineering to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus achieve the 2°C target adopted in the Paris Agreement seem to be gradually gaining consensus in the decision-making sphere, despite the ...
Régis Briday +2 more
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