SOC 2070 Lecture : cognitive deviance
21 Dec 2011
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People won t trust you as a scientist or teacher: anti-semitism, other forms of racism y blaming everything on the jews. Saying the holocaust didn t happen: conspiracy theories ex. fake moon landing, government creating crack, 9/11 etc, paranormal and pseudo-science- rejected by the medical profession. If you come out with a view that people don t accept or that contradicts everything that was previously believed. Ideas and economics affect each other, but it doesn t necessarily determine your belief systems. If you have a certain belief system you may end up in a certain occupation. Disproving their religion or showing that it is flawed will not convince them. Evolution, creationism and intelligent design: to bring in one religion into science would bring in all religions, and end separation of the church and state, adherents of science see intelligent design as a creationist trojan horse y. It looks and acts like a scientific theory but really isn t.
