[ExI] The Climate Science Isn't Settled

[Mike Dougherty]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On a (slightly) more serious note, though, there are known methods of
> changing people's minds.  Apart from physical violence, I mean.  Simply
> contradicting someone's beliefs never does any good, of course, but to say
> that talking never does any good is a simplification, I think.
>
> Don't you agree? ;>
>
I agree that it is possible to change someone's mind.  For someone firmly
entrenched in their own ideas, it takes considerable work to first
understand them well enough to deconstruct their position and introduce an
alternate possibility.  Email conversations rarely have the patience to do
that.
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