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In response to
""There may be a scientific answer for why conservatives and liberals disagree so vehemently over the existence of issues like climate change ... " -- (link)"
by
ReluctantCynic
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While on some level I think this is incredibly obvious I think the study itself is fairly flawed. The problem is that they've taken real world issues
Posted by
pmb (aka pmb)
Nov 7 '14, 12:09
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and ascribed new "facts" to the situation. However, since these are real world situations I think that people can't help but impose their own "knowledge" and beliefs to the facts. In other words people are disputing the premise of the question because the premise is so limited in scope. It would be more interesting to propose an issue which is purely hypothetical but had proposed solutions that favored regulation or free market and then see if people still question the "reality" of the hypothetical.
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