tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598689153050249346.post4172572335308975762..comments2024-01-31T09:35:11.071+00:00Comments on Primum Non Nocere: Delusional disorder: Part IINesciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873864197249227328noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598689153050249346.post-44064857923182744082010-04-07T17:00:38.731+01:002010-04-07T17:00:38.731+01:00Good post, I've also been looking at this issu...Good post, I've also been looking at this issue, esp. in relation to climate change:<br />- denial is an emotional response and not a logical response: http://anarchist606.blogspot.com/2009/12/understanding-mind-of-denialist.html<br />- the self-enclosed theory of the climate conspiracy also acts like a ratchet - a device that only allows movement in one way. So when evidence that disputes their idea arrives (as it does weekly) the 'self-sealing' mental construct that thy have built simply dismisses it. Yet when news arrives that seems to back their ideas - mentally, the theory moves forward. This means for the denialist, it only ever moves forward. So to the denialist must seem that with so much 'evidence' for the huge hoax accumulated, it must break into the concious of the mainstream any time now. As each new piece of denialist propaganda arrives, so the denialist thinks, "This is straw that will finally break the camel back of AGW..."<br /><br />Yet just like tomorrow, that day never seems to come. I am calling this bit of the mental construct, the Ratchet Hypothesis.<br />http://anarchist606.blogspot.com/2010/01/understanding-mind-of-denialist-ii.htmlanarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598689153050249346.post-89507149841042865892010-04-06T21:50:13.889+01:002010-04-06T21:50:13.889+01:00Some interesting points here, especially listing t...Some interesting points here, especially listing the various characteristics, or traits, of the denial movement. My question is do all denialists fit that category, or only some? And to what extent are some of those traits more the result of cognitive biases that could, with some hard work, be corrected?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com