Facts are frustrating and only generate a deeper resistance

Prof. Dan Kahan.

Attempting to convince people about the unfolding difficulties humanity faces because of climate change falls, it seems, on deaf ears, but new research suggests they are not even listening.

Through some innovative research Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan, has found that a person’s political passion makes of difficult, if not impossible for him, or her, to think clearly.

In a story headed: “The Most Depressing Discovery About the Brain, Ever”, Kahan illustrates that partisanship can undermine critical reason skills and what is clearly wrong can become right.