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* Advocates of the [[global warming theory]] refuse to consider any scientific evidence which shows that natural causes have always had a greater effect on terrestrial air temperature than human activity. | * Advocates of the [[global warming theory]] refuse to consider any scientific evidence which shows that natural causes have always had a greater effect on terrestrial air temperature than human activity. | ||
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Revision as of 11:53, March 23, 2008
Deliberate ignorance is the practice of refusing to consider or discuss logic or evidence disproving ideologically motivated positions. Examples include:
- Abolitionists refusing to acknowledge the economic benefits of slavery
- Democrats refusing to acknowledge Barack Obama's appeal to unpatriotic donors and supporters
- materialists refuse to address the impossibility of material explanation for migration and homing
- evolutionists refuse to address the lack of a plausible evolutionary path for the whale[1]
- liberals refuse to address how socialism destroys productivity
- abortionists refuse to address the undisclosed harm to the mothers who have abortions
- Advocates of the global warming theory refuse to consider any scientific evidence which shows that natural causes have always had a greater effect on terrestrial air temperature than human activity.
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- Northerners refusing to acknowledge the evils of integration
Common expressions of deliberate ignorance include:
- I'm not aware of that! (without admitting a failure to look)
- I've never seen that in the New York Times!
- That's not what it said in my (public school) textbook!
- Let's talk about something else!
- I'm not interested in that!
Crime of Deliberate Ignorance
Deliberate ignorance can be a crime. For example, jurors were instructed "to consider whether ... former Enron Corp. executives deliberately ignored accounting fraud as the energy trader fell into bankruptcy."[2]
References
- ↑ This is disputed by evolutionists at a blog worth reviewing further for plausibility here.
- ↑ http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/05/11/enron_jury_to_consider_deliberate_ignorance/