Eugenie Scott describes how Creationists and climate denialists share tactics
Denial of evolution, climate change: Linked?
Poll scientific specialists on evolution and global warming, and the results are overwhelming: a strong consensus that the scientists say is founded on equally strong data.
But among the general public, the response can be quite different. Eugenie Scott, a science education activist best known for fighting creationism in public schools, says denial of evolution has much in common with the popular backlash against climate science.
Both, she contends, have ideological underpinnings, and both represent a threat to education.
Source: Orange County Register
Scott describes three pillars of global-warming denial as directly parallel to the three pillars of evolution denial: 1. The science is weak; 2. Ideological resistance (creationists say evolution is incompatible with faith; global warming is incompatible with free-market capitalism; 3. Teach both sides. All three approaches are flawed but effective with a public who is not well versed in the tactics and poorly education in how science works.
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