Joel Achenbach writes about why some educated people reject science on everything from fluoridation to climate change: "The 'science communication problem,' as it’s blandly called by the scientists who study it, has yielded abundant new research into how people decide what to believe — and why they so often don’t accept the scientific consensus." One factor: "People tend to use scientific knowledge to reinforce beliefs that have already been shaped by their worldview."
February 9, 2015