a 2017 study by John Cook et al., confirming prior research, showed that exposing people to misinformation about the scientific consensus on global warming had a polarizing effect based on political ideology. People who already accepted the consensus did so even more, and those who rejected the consensus held more firmly to their rejection. Correcting that misinformation had almost no effect on reducing this polarization—facts were simply not enough to change people’s minds.
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