01 January, 2016

'Science deniers reject authority and facts' - The Age


In North Carolina, a community rejects a solar farm amid concerns it could "suck up all the energy from the sun" and cause cancer.

On the sidelines of climate negotiations in Paris, an eccentric British peer continues to insist anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. In Canberra, prominent backbenchers publicly share the same doubts. So, it seems, do 17 per cent of the Australian population.

The principal of Brunswick North West Primary School makes a point of respecting the "diversity" of views on vaccination. Months later, a quarter of its student body comes down with chicken pox.

Read The Age story - “Science deniers reject authority and facts.”

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