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https://phys.org/news/2022-06-science-coverage-climate-mindsbriefly.html
Science reporting on climate change does lead Americans to adopt more accurate beliefs and support government action on the issue—but these gains are fragile, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that these accurate beliefs fade quickly and can erode when people are exposed to coverage skeptical of climate change.
"It is not the case that the American public does not respond to scientifically informed reporting when they are exposed to it," said Thomas Wood, associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University.
"But even factually accurate science reporting recedes from people's frame of reference very quickly."
"Not only did science reporting change people's factual understanding, it also moved their political preferences," he said. "It made them think that climate change was a pressing government concern that government should do more about."
[...] Overall, the results suggest that the media play a key role in Americans' beliefs and attitudes about scientific issues like climate change.
"It was striking to us how amenable the subjects in our study were to what they read about climate change in our study. But what they learned faded very quickly," Wood said. The results of the study conflict with the media imperative to only report on what is new.
More information: Time and skeptical opinion content erode the effects of science coverage on climate beliefs and attitudes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122069119.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Username on Wednesday June 22 2022, @04:18PM (5 children)
I trust that "accurate beliefs" is another term for politically correct, and by default is false, otherwise it would just be correct and factual.
Yeah. When i see certain degrees from certain unis i already know it's slanted "research."
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2022, @05:14PM (4 children)
Yet somehow you consider Fox and Breitbart to be valid sources.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2022, @05:50PM (1 child)
Let's just be quiet and eat the bugs. For lower carbon emissions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2022, @07:36PM
PSA: don't take advice from not-sees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2022, @07:39PM (1 child)
Surely you jest, Fox News is just a more reputable CNN at this point, both pushing the same Narrative. Breitbart hasn't been trustworthy since Andrew passed.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 24 2022, @05:36AM
Faux News is now dead, unreliable. Murdock just divorced this fourth wife, the Supermodel one. NewsCorp is finished.