The role of ideology in acceptance or denial of climate science has been a persistent research interest of Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues. In their fantastically titled study, ‘NASA Faked the Moon Landing – Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science’, they found that subjects subscribing to conspiracist thought tended to reject all scientific propositions they encountered, while those with strong traits of conservatism or pronounced free-market world-views only tended to reject scientific findings with regulatory implications – namely,
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