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The science believers who hold scientific conspiracy theories
Survey data keeps showing that confidence in science and belief in its conspiracy theories can sit inside the same person. The pattern, researchers say, is less contradiction than ideology doing the sorting.
Desk note: The wire treatment of this study emphasised the apparent paradox and stopped there. Monexus read the same evidence and read it as a story about two different audiences that should not be addressed as one.
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