How Do We Get People Who Believe in Pseudoscience to Trust Science?
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One question for Lee McIntyre, research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. McIntyre is the author of The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience, and How to Talk to a Science Denier.
How do we get people who believe in pseudoscience to trust science?
We shouldn’t be dismissive of people who believe in pseudoscience. In many cases they’re victims in some way. Most people don’t consider themselves to be anti-science or science-deniers. They’ll say things like, “I did my own research.” They consider themselves to be picking up on something that has been tested and shown.
