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'''Deliberate ignorance''' is the practice of refusing to consider or discuss logic or evidence disproving ideologically motivated positions.  A related concept is the [[fallacy of invincible ignorance]].  Examples of deliberate ignorance include:

'''Deliberate ignorance''' is the practice of refusing to consider or discuss logic or evidence disproving ideologically motivated positions.  Related concepts are [[wishful thinking]] and the [[fallacy of invincible ignorance]].  Examples of deliberate ignorance include:

* [[Howard Dean]], a physician, former Governor, and longtime politician, refusing to recognize that [[taxpayer-funded abortion]] increases the number of [[abortion]]s<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/210vssua.asp?</ref>

* [[Howard Dean]], a physician, former Governor, and longtime politician, refusing to recognize that [[taxpayer-funded abortion]] increases the number of [[abortion]]s<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/210vssua.asp?</ref>

* [[materialists]] refuse to address the impossibility of material explanation for [[animal migration|migration]] and [[homing]]

* [[materialists]] refuse to address the impossibility of material explanation for [[animal migration|migration]] and [[homing]]

* [[evolutionists]] refuse to address the lack of a plausible evolutionary path for the [[whale]] and the other [[counterexamples to evolution]].

* [[evolutionists]] refuse to address the lack of a plausible evolutionary path for the [[whale]] and the other [[counterexamples to evolution]].

* Believing that only one ideology could ever make mistakes; constantly demonizing that ideology while ignoring the faults of ones own (a particulary [[Liberal]] fault).

* Believing that only one ideology could ever make mistakes; constantly demonizing that ideology while [[special pleading|ignoring the faults of one's own]] (a particulary [[Liberal]] fault).

* [[liberals]] refuse to address how [[socialism]] destroys productivity

* [[liberals]] refuse to address how [[socialism]] destroys productivity

* [[Liberals]] who [[Bible denier|refuse to acknowledge]] the many fundamental truths in the [[Bible]] and even dismiss out-of-hand the many examples of [[Biblical scientific foreknowledge]] but refuse to read the Bible.

* [[Liberals]] who [[Bible denier|refuse to acknowledge]] the many fundamental truths in the [[Bible]] and even dismiss out-of-hand the many examples of [[Biblical scientific foreknowledge]] but refuse to read the Bible.