Science denial occurs when a group feels threatened.

Notes: Galileo Galilei facing the Roman Inquisition (Cristiano Banti, 1857). Galileo was sentenced to lifetime house arrest for questioning the Church's geocentric view that the sun revolves around the earth.

Bite Source: paraphrasing Gavin Schmidt

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Science denial and politicization occurs whenever some influential group sees a new discovery as threatening to their worldview, values, status or income. Not unique to climate science, this has been going on for centuries.

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Tom Smerling

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05/28/2011

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by Brian Ettling

October 23, 2011

Nice quote by Gavin Schmidt!

I am a big fan of Gavin Schmidt. Thanks for including one of his quotes in the bites. It would be nice to have more information and history, besides Galileo or more of the background information on Galileo, how people can feel threatened when new scientific information is presented.

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