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Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Why do members of the public disagree – sharply and persistently – about facts on which expert scientists largely agree? We designed a study to test a distinctive explanation: the cultural cognition of scientific consensus. The ‘cultural cognition of risk’ refers to the tendency of individuals to form risk perceptions that are congenial to their values.
Dan M. Kahan +2 more
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Public Awareness of the Scientific Consensus on Climate
SAGE Open, 2016 Questions about climate change elicit some of the widest political divisions of any items on recent U.S. surveys. Severe polarization affects even basic questions about the reality of anthropogenic climate change (ACC), or whether most scientists agree ...
Lawrence C. Hamilton
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No scientific consensus on GMO safety [PDF]
Environmental Sciences Europe, 2015 Environmental Sciences Europe ...
Hilbeck, Angelika +14 more
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Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, 2021 International forest law relies on a complex set of instruments with different legal nature and scope. Efforts to adopt a common convention have consistently failed because of strong political opposition between developed and developing countries ...
Julien Dellaux, Antoine Dolez
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Fighting misinformation in seismology: Expert opinion on earthquake facts vs. fiction
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Misinformation carries the potential for immense damage to public understanding of science and for evidence-based decision making at an individual and policy level.
Sarah Dryhurst +10 more
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Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 While controls over the Earth’s climate system have undergone rigorous hypothesis-testing since the 1800s, questions over the scientific consensus of the role of human activities in modern climate change continue to arise in public settings.
Mark Lynas +2 more
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From one extreme to the other?
Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, 2021 Cet article porte sur la manière dont l’utilisation des opioïdes aux États-Unis a fait l’objet, au début du xxe siècle puis du xxie siècle, de deux consensus successifs mais opposés, alors même que ces consensus émanaient de groupes dits de « therapeutic
David Herzberg
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Epistemic Implications of Scientific Consensus and Dissent
, 2021 Consensus and dissent play important roles in science. Both scientific consensus and dissent are said to be epistemically beneficial: consensus is often taken as a mark of knowledge and as a basis for informing decision-making and policy, whereas dissent
Stephenson, Chloe Maria
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 College and university biology majors who are not climate change deniers may yet be unaware of the degree of scientific consensus on climate change and unprepared to communicate about climate science to others.
Jeremy D. Sloane, Jason R. Wiles
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Lights should support circadian rhythms: evidence-based scientific consensus
Frontiers in Photonics, 2023 For over a hundred years, the lighting industry has primarily been driven by illumination aesthetics, energy efficiency and product cost with little consideration of the effects of light on health.
Martin Moore-Ede +4 more
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