What I learned was that just figuring out the right answer is indifferent to change people’s minds, even in science. The further from experimental confirmation

What I learned was that just figuring out the right answer is indifferent to change people’s minds, even in science. The further from experimental confirmation some question is, the bigger chance that people will ignore evidence in favour of their pet belief. There's a kind of people that likes to believe that we're too far away from our nearest neighbors, that we'll never spread to other stars, nobody will come and that we'll get extinct soon. Not sure why they think this way. What I do know is that somehow they find comfort believing that. Fermi paradox is music to their ears because it seems to confirm their mindset.