In spite of the United States’ primacy in science and technology, there are two broad areas of science that many of our citizens refuse to accept: biological evolution and global warming. Most advanced countries find this paradox baffling. American rejection of evolutionary science has been frequently studied over more than a century. Our denial of climate science is a much more recent phenomenon, since climate science itself is only a few decades old. There are some interesting common elements in these two cases of science denialism, including the similar tactics used to attack both evolutionary and climate science.
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Morrison, D. (2011). Science denialism: evolution and climate change. Reports of the Nation Center for Science Education, 35(5), 3.1-3.10.
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