host: abby livingston c-span, anight on discussion on how much the public trust science and how peopleal opinions affect voting science. >> those of us who study this stuff, it really has to do with identity. there's a lot of complicated jargon on this, but essentially if something is important for your identity, you don't want to change your mind. if something is not important for your identity, you will get new data and you will think, sure, i guess i will go there or do this thing. but if it is relevant for your identity, you are very unwilling to change and you will think lots of collocated ways around trying to keep thinking what you wanted to think to maintain that piece of your identity. so generally, when people dislike multiple elements of science, it's not because they are more or less committed to science, it's because those elements of science together all conflict with different parts of their identity. so it is really about identity stop and not about rational thinking or capacity to understand or deal with science. own worktudies, and my in a creationist high school, these