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b'Climate change isn\\u2019t happening.\\xa0Vaccines make you sick.\\xa0When it comes to threats to public or environmental health, a surprisingly large fraction of the population still denies the consensus of scientific evidence.\\xa0But it\\u2019s not the first time \\u2013 many people long resisted the evidentiary link between HIV and AIDS and smoking with lung cancer.\\nThere\\u2019s a sense that science denialism is on the rise.\\xa0It prompted a gathering of scientists and historians in New York City to discuss the problem, which included a debate on the usefulness of the word \\u201cdenial\\u201d itself.\\xa0Big Picture Science\\xa0was there. We report from the Science Denial symposium held jointly by the New York Academy of Sciences and Rutgers Global Health Institute.\\xa0\\nFind out why so many people dig in their heels and distrust scientific findings.\\xa0Plus, the techniques wielded by special interest groups to dispute some inconvenient truths.\\xa0We also hear how simply stating more facts may be the wrong approach to combating scientific resistance.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\n Melanie Brickman Borchard\\xa0- Director of Life Sciences Conferences at New York Academy of Sciences\\n\\n\\n Nancy Tomes\\xa0- professor of history at Stony Brook University\\n\\n\\nAllan Brandt\\xa0- professor of history of science and medicine at Harvard University. Author of \\u201cThe Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America\\u201d\\n\\n\\nSheila Jasanoff\\xa0- Director of Program on Science, Technology and Society and professor of environment, science and technology at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University\\n\\n\\n Michael Dahlstrom\\xa0- Associate Director of Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, and associate professor at Iowa State University\\n\\n\\nMatthew Nisbet\\xa0- professor of communication and public policy at Northeastern University\\n\\n\\nArthur (Art) Caplan\\xa0- professor and founding head of medical ethics at NYU School of Medicine\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'