Dan Kahan in "Nature": You know why you don't believe in the global warming hoax? Your "reasoning powers have become disabled by a polluted science-communication environment"

Why we are poles apart on climate change : Nature News & Comment

Studying things from a psychological angle does help to make sense of climate-change scepticism. But the true source of the problem, research suggests, is not that people are irrational. Instead, it is that their reasoning powers have become disabled by a polluted science-communication environment.

Dan M. Kahan | Yale Law School

Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School. In addition to risk perception, his areas of research include criminal law and evidence.