People with more extreme attitudes towards science have self-confidence in their understanding of science, even if this is not justified

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In an age where scepticism of well-evidenced science has negative consequences for individuals and society, it is important to understand why people have such discordant attitudes towards well-evidenced science. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. the relationship between factual knowledge of science and attitude positivity; it is commonly found that lower factual knowledge is associated with more negative attitudes (for meta-analyAbbreviations: AU GM,:genetic Anabbreviationlisthasbeencompiledforthoseusedinthetext:Pleaseverifythatallentriesarecorrect: modifications; MRS, sis). It has, however, Science; SAU, subjective science understanding. been recently reported that those opposing genetic modification (GM) technology as . . .

 



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