john fernbach wrote:
> However, I don't think it's at all surprising that fairly large groups
> of humans will decide to ignore or deny, or possibly fight against, a
> new set of theories and/or facts that at least purports to be
> scientifically grounded, but that threatens either their ideological
> and political beliefs, or their economic self-interest, or both.
I think it was Max Planck who said people rarely change their minds
based on objective evidence; science goes on, and the people who insist
on holding ideas that are no longer tenable eventually die off.
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