For five hundred years, much of the world viciously opposed the claim that the Earth orbited the sun. For 500 years - even though it was allegedly proven by science. And now, that same pathetic and willful ignorance has risen from the dead.
A recent paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society titled "The Psychology of Global Warming" delved into why so many people cling to denialism in locked opposition to evidence and facts.
Why is interesting. But in this instance we do not have 500 years to let reality sink in for those people as they stagger about - grasping not for "brains" like fictional zombies, but for excuses to cling to false beliefs.
continued at Daily Kos....
