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- Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth 7 comments
- Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627606.100-living-in-denial-why-sensible-people-reject-the-truth.html?full=true&print=true 204 comments science
- Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth. [New Scientist] http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627606.100-living-in-denial-why-sensible-people-reject-the-truth.html?full=true 21 comments science
- Think Tank Shifts From Climate Science Denial To COVID Denial | The same people who brought you climate change as a hoax think the same about the novel coronavirus. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/think-tank-shifts-from-climate-science-denial-to-covid-denial 23 comments politics
- ""I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons," bin Laden's statement said. Asked Sunday if he believed bin Laden's denial, President Bush said, "No question he is the prime suspect."" http://archives.cnn.com/2001/us/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/? 30 comments politics
- 'It's not real': In South Dakota, which has shunned masks and other COVID rules, some people die in denial, nurse says https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/17/south-dakota-nurse-jodi-doering-covid-19-patients-denial/6330791002/ 39 comments politics
- Trump’s denial that 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico is an outrageous lie by a U.S. president https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article217928445.html 1680 comments politics
- At Ground Zero For Climate Change, People Think Donald Trump’s Denial Is Insane https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/greenland-trump-climate_us_59dbf018e4b0b34afa5ba483?section=us_politics 22 comments politics
- AIDS Denial Crazies Go All DMCA On Videos Educating People Of Their Craziness http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140210/05172926163/aids-denial-crazies-go-all-dmca-videos-educating-people-their-craziness.shtml 84 comments worldnews
- Bush tells Dems war denial is dangerous==> compares them to people who ignored the rise of Hitler and Lenin http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071102/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_16;_ylt=aieq0ko6ykqgcnuuihcoesigw_ie 59 comments politics
- Don’t believe Donald Trump: He spun climate denial to The New York Times, and a lot of people fell for it https://www.salon.com/2016/11/27/do-not-believe-donald-trump-climate-change_partner/ 17 comments politics
- Barack Obama Criticizes Donald Trump's Coronavirus and Climate Change Policies in All but Name – "We've seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic. We can't afford any more consequences of climate denial," Obama tweeted while urging people to vote https://people.com/politics/barack-obama-criticizes-donald-trump-coronavirus-and-climate-change/ 35 comments politics
- The return of the unskewed polls: Data denial is in full throttle at Fox News - "Unskewing the polls is a big lie, and the only victims of the lie are the people who believe it." http://www.salon.com/2016/08/21/the-return-of-the-unskewed-polls-data-denial-is-in-full-throttle-at-fox-news/ 257 comments politics
- The Angry Rich - it has become common to hear vehement denials that people making $400,000 or $500,000 a year are rich. Why, they can barely make ends meet. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/opinion/20krugman.html?_r=2 112 comments reddit.com
- The Angry Rich - it has become common to hear vehement denials that people making $400,000 or $500,000 a year are rich. Why, they can barely make ends meet. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/opinion/20krugman.html?_r=2 108 comments politics
- Some Very Bad People on Both Sides | Trump’s false equivalencies amount to a denial of the role that ideology played in the El Paso shooting. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/very-bad-people-both-sides/595654/ 62 comments politics
- Make, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), a legal form of protesting. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-distributed-denial-service-ddos-legal-form-protesting/x3drjwzy 3 comments politics
- Is Climate 'Doomerism' as bad as Climate Denial? Too much pessimism and 'binary' framing could cause people to lose motivation and fuel denial/lack of action https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/24/climate-doomers-ipcc-un-report/ 4 comments climate
- Denialism 2020: Trump and his fanatical allies are electoral terrorists. It's got to stop. Don't tolerate Trump, Giuliani, the Texas AG or anyone else who won't accept Biden win. No tent is big enough to hold people who want to burn it down. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/12/10/trump-election-deniers-endanger-democracy-texas-lawsuit-column/3862923001/ 31 comments politics
- Facebook’s Algorithm Is 'Actively Promoting' Holocaust Denial Content - Facebook’s own recommendation algorithm is dragging people deeper into the world of Holocaust denial, a new study found. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3e8aw/facebooks-algorithm-is-actively-promoting-holocaust-denial-content 8 comments technology
- The twitter feed of Maxime Bernier, the founder and current leader of the People's Party of Canada, is a gold mine of climate denial to the umpteenth degree https://twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1167816696624799745 14 comments climate
- Warner Bros ... has been the leader in trying to hold back rentals in the bizarre belief that if people can't rent a video legally, they're suddenly more likely to pony up many times the amount to buy the full DVD. This is what we call denial http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120131/00110017595/warner-bros-just-keeps-pushing-people-to-piracy-new-deal-also-delays-queuing.shtml 441 comments technology
- [Lewis] It says so much for the denial in Spanish football over their racism crisis that they are deliberately taking a line from our Vinicius interview out of context to discredit him, instead of accepting the arrest of 3 people in July was only a 1st step in dealing with a well-documented problem. https://x.com/MirrorDarren/status/1831334096749867108 38 comments soccer
- The Supreme Court Appoints Itself to Be America’s Regulatory Czar. The high court cast aside the peoples' elected representatives to enact the climate denial agenda of the mega-donors who funded their nominations. They won't stop there. https://newrepublic.com/article/166983/supreme-court-epa-power-grab 93 comments energy
- The Supreme Court Appoints Itself to Be America’s Regulatory Czar - The high court cast aside the peoples' elected representatives to enact the climate denial agenda of the mega-donors who funded their nominations. They won't stop there. https://newrepublic.com/article/166983/supreme-court-epa-power-grab 16 comments environment
- The Supreme Court Appoints Itself to Be America’s Regulatory Czar - The high court cast aside the peoples' elected representatives to enact the climate denial agenda of the mega-donors who funded their nominations. They won't stop there. https://newrepublic.com/article/166983/supreme-court-epa-power-grab 401 comments politics
- People who endorsed President Donald Trump’s denials of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to adopt justifications for deviant behavior related to social distancing, according to new research conducted during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak. https://www.psypost.org/2021/08/new-research-indicates-trump-contributed-to-americans-embracing-beliefs-that-neutralized-social-distancing-norms-61687 171 comments science
- South Korea’s Green New Deal ‘stunningly ambitious’ for one of region’s top polluters. “Asia is not a region where you have climate denialism. When people go to vote they’re expressing a view on a better future and they now want that to be a cleaner and greener future.” https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/climate-change-south-korea-new-green-deal-ambitious-12691892 4 comments environment
- Climate change denialism is something we all suffer from - researcher | "It's not simply because humans are bad or selfish people: there are a lot of external factors out of our control, such as the information we consume that can encourage denialism, or the way our economy is set up." https://phys.org/news/2020-02-climate-denialism.html 10 comments worldnews
- Minors seeking abortion without parental consent (in states that require it) face denial and humiliation in court. This study demonstrates that young people are harmed by the denial of judicial bypass, which effectively eliminates access to abortion, with potentially life-long impacts. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uoca-jda011420.php#.xidq6k0xq60.reddit 1007 comments science
- San Juan mayor blasts Trump: ‘This is what denial following neglect looks like: Mr Pres in the real world people died on your watch. Your lack of respect is appalling!' http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/406455-san-juan-mayor-blasts-trump-for-questioning-puerto-rican-deaths-this 9 comments worldnews
- "Due deference to denialism: explaining ordinary people’s rejection of established scientific findings" (2017) (Open Access) "...many people reject...expert views. It is tempting to try to explain these beliefs by reference to ignorance or irrationality, but..." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1477-x 84 comments philosophy
- Checking Ted Cruz's climate science denial howlers | These are people who fancy themselves as the leader of the “free world” but think every science academy in the world together with the world’s thermometers, tide gauges and glaciers are all engaged in an elaborate hoax. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/feb/11/checking-ted-cruzs-climate-science-denial-clangers 9 comments politics
- Commentary: Will we reach peak denial soon? — Rush Limbaugh postulated that “deranged people …..and most of them are leftists” would take Obama’s embrace of climate action as a cue to start America’s next mass shooting. http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2015/12/will-we-reach-peak-denial-soon 8 comments politics
- The rules really are different for blacks seeking justice | "Too many — not all, but too many — white people still live in air castles of naivete and denial, still think abiding injustice and ongoing oppression are just some fairytale, lie or scheme African Americans concocted to defraud them." http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article4149075.html 291 comments politics
- A Nation in Denial? The US has the most people in denial about the inequality they live amid. People who underestimate their society’s level of inequality turn out to be less likely to support policies that would help distribute their society’s income and wealth more equally. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/30/377119/inequality-and-the-us-a-nation-in-denial/ 1291 comments politics
- Liberia confirms West Point patients missing: Following earlier denials, Liberia has admitted that 17 suspected Ebola patients are "missing" after a health centre in the capital was looted. The gov't had sought to reassure people, saying all the patients had been moved to another health facility. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28841040#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=publicrss20-sa 94 comments worldnews
- Denial dries up: Americans finally seeing the light on climate change. Looks like Fox News and Congress are becoming ever more intellectually isolated from the American people, perched together on a sinking island of climate denialism. http://grist.org/news/americans-just-arent-buying-that-climate-denial-crap-anymore/#.uou9nlc0umm.twitter 404 comments politics
- Two Different Worlds: While working people are suffering the torments of joblessness, underemployment and dwindling compensation, corporate profits have rebounded and the financial sector is once again living the high life, comfortably in denial about the extent of the carnage. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/opinion/18herbert.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage 10 comments politics
- One fine June day, the author is launching his best-selling memoir, Hitch-22. The next, he’s throwing up backstage at The Daily Show, in a brief bout of denial, before entering the unfamiliar country—with its egalitarian spirit, martial metaphors, and hard bargains of people who have cancer. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/hitchens-201009 87 comments worldnews