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New research explores why some voters are more susceptible to demagogue candidates Author: J.D. Warren Share This: Many low-education voters who embrace social welfare programs vote against their own beliefs, new UC Riverside research holds. The mitigating factor is education: The more education one has, the more likely one is to stick to one’s policy preferences. “It means candidates who employ tactics such as fear and attaching patriotism to certain concepts can persuade ...

Phenomena, if you say the word climate change, there will be instant position taken by those who disagree. >> its become a partisan issue and science almost never comes into the conversation, unfortunately. >> its been connected to religion, evolution, creationism. why is that? >> for me, as a lot of science communicators say, the great thing about science is it just is, whether you believe in it or not. but there are a lot of people who look at these things as if they are belief structures, whi...