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photon · 09-17-2013, 02:40 PM

I changed to my current position based on evidence and reading the science, I'd be willing to change my position again if something that had better explanatory power and was better evidenced came along (at least I hope I would be, I've talked many times before about the difficulty in changing one's belief).

Richard Muller, star of a skeptic video that HOZ posted years ago and the guy that was supposed to spearhead climate change denial by coming up with something different by running a study the Koch brothers partially funded, ended up converting and now agrees that it's real and is man made. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/op...e-skeptic.html

So it can happen, but I agree with your sentiment that changing one's mind is very difficult and it's hard not to be (and so many people seem to be) motivated by ideology rather than just following the evidence. It's a problem all human brains have.

09-17-2013, 02:40 PM	#65
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	I changed to my current position based on evidence and reading the science, I'd be willing to change my position again if something that had better explanatory power and was better evidenced came along (at least I hope I would be, I've talked many times before about the difficulty in changing one's belief). Richard Muller, star of a skeptic video that HOZ posted years ago and the guy that was supposed to spearhead climate change denial by coming up with something different by running a study the Koch brothers partially funded, ended up converting and now agrees that it's real and is man made. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/op...e-skeptic.html So it can happen, but I agree with your sentiment that changing one's mind is very difficult and it's hard not to be (and so many people seem to be) motivated by ideology rather than just following the evidence. It's a problem all human brains have. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.