{"id":1577,"date":"2011-08-12T18:54:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"Michael Specter is a reporter for the <em>New Yorker<\/em>.\u00a0 His 2009 book <em>Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/05\/books\/05book.html?ref="},"modified":"2013-08-05T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:45:48","slug":"dangers-of-science-denial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-science\/dangers-of-science-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangers of Science Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Specter is a reporter for the <em>New Yorker<\/em>.\u00a0 His 2009 book <em>Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/05\/books\/05book.html?ref=books\">reviewed here<\/a>) describes the situation when, in Mr. Specter&#8217;s words, \u201can entire segment of society, often struggling with the trauma of change, turns away from reality in favor of a more comfortable lie.\u201d <!--more-->In this talk at the 2010 TED conference, Specter warns of the dangers of denying data.\u00a0 As you listen, consider the implications of what he is saying.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do Americans deny data as easily as he suggests we do?<\/li>\n<li>Why would someone choose to deny data, especially when it was reproduced in study after study?<\/li>\n<li>What does he suggest might be the result of continued denial of data?<\/li>\n<li>What are instances in your own thinking where you have purposefully refused to consider facts presented to you?\u00a0 What were the implications of that decision?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20146117<\/p>\n<h3><em>Join the Conversation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We welcome comments on this or other related topics on the main Spotlight page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-science\/\">Rusty Towell&#8217;s Spotlight page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Specter is a reporter for the New Yorker.\u00a0 His 2009 book Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (reviewed here) describes the situation when, in Mr. Specter&#8217;s words, \u201can entire segment of society, often struggling with the trauma of change, turns away from reality in favor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3459,"featured_media":0,"parent":1456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T2tB-pr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1577\/revisions\/2650"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}