> It really showed how futile researchers’ attempts at science communication can be. There is the Cultural Cognition Project (http://www.culturalcognition.net/

> It really showed how futile researchers’ attempts at science communication can be. There is the Cultural Cognition Project (http://www.culturalcognition.net/kahan/ http://www.culturalcognition.net/kahan/), and if I understand the research they did correctly, you really should not expect explanations of science to be effective at changing people's minds like that. In the past, and in psychology experiments, this technique has been shown to be ineffective even though it seems really intuitive that it should work.