"In the short term, living in a state of peak denial helps us cope. In the long run, it will be our undoing.
Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial.
And so those who wear masks are ridiculed, scientists reporting on COVID-19 risks are cast as fearmongers, and those with long COVID are dismissed as having anxiety disorders."
Fantastic piece on the tactics behind science denial, most notably on COVID, by sociologists in RSS Scientific American (npub1zah…m5um)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/
Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: /
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