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Opening your eyes would help

(Image: Woods Wheatcroft)

From climate change to vaccines, evolution to flu, denialists are on the march. Why are so many people refusing to accept what the evidence is telling them? Over the next 10 pages we look at the phenomenon in depth. What is denial? What attracts people to it? How does it start, and how does it spread? And finally, how should we respond to it?

Read on:

When a sceptic isn’t a sceptic

Why sensible people reject the truth

How corporations manufacture doubt

Unleashing a lie

Questioning science isn’t blasphemy

The truth is…

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