Denialism

In the psychology of human behavior, denialism is a person's choice to deny reality as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. Denialism is an essentially irrational action that withholds the validation of a historical experience or event, when a person refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality.

In the sciences, denialism is the rejection of basic facts and concepts that are undisputed, well-supported parts of the scientific consensus on a subject, in favor of radical and controversial ideas. The terms Holocaust denialism and AIDS denialism describe the denial of the fac
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How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World – and What We Can Do About It
Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change
Summary and Analysis of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer by Leopard Books (2016-03-21)
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
Summary and Analysis of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right: Based on the Book by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Smart Summaries)
Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
The Triumph of Sociobiology
Beyond Contempt: How Liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide
Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition
EPISTEMOLOGY OF FAKE NEWS EPHIL CLOTH (Engaging Philosophy)

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free. ...more
Michael Specter

Noam Chomsky
The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems. ...more
Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

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