proven scientific concepts like global warming then everything you know is wrong joining me now is chris mooney science and political journalist and author of three books including his newest out in april the republican brain the science of why they deny science and reality the science of why that chris welcome. to the science of why they deny science. first of all. educated republicans are likely to are more likely more likely than not educated republicans or how you know how does the shakeout get to think about politics is driven by emotion and emotion is what compels us to believe certain things and then if we go and research them and educate ourselves watch fox news we tie certain facts or certain arguments to our emotions and we become harder to persuade i think this happens to some extent with liberals but i think conservatives are really doubling down as they know more they become less persuadable. even if they know more that contradicts what they think they know i mean if for example somebody who is a conservative who thinks that climate change is just a big conspiracy by academics they

supreme court's citizens united decision has also played a role they had to discuss this with me is chris mooney science am political journalist and author of his latest book the republican brain the science of why they deny science and reality chris thanks so much for joining us tonight. for starters what do you think of some of these statements that i said right coming from the scientists that were part of this meeting here i mean is this is this a little out of character is this kind of it's been building i was actually in vancouver at the meeting and i just scientists have been concerned for a while but it just seems to keep getting worse rick santorum for example the things that he says george w. bush didn't say these kinds of things are right and scientists were concerned about george bush but he never called global warming a hoax is taking it to another level while santorum is just one of them and we really see this happening on a mass scale and so let's talk about the way that you think that now we're seeing citizens united you know money start to influence this debate what money is a bi