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watching Fox News makes you distrust distrust
climate scientists we've known that watching Fox News makes you
but less informed about the realities have many news stories and what's going
on in the world
we know that watching Fox News does any number of other things to you
but this is an interesting study its it's written about on Mother Jones
and it's a paper that's out in the journal public understanding of science
and explores
what is the effect love watching Fox News
on people's perception of climate science and scientists themselves
and not surprisingly the more you watch Fox News
the less you trust climb it scientists
this is very very significant to read from the mother jones article the
results show that conservative media consumption
lead to less trust in climate scientists even is consuming non-conservative media
had the opposite effect leading to an increase trust
in climate scientists between people who said they don't consume any conservative
media and people who said they consume a large amount
there is a 13 percent difference in the amount of trust in scientists according
to the studies co author
Loren Feldman I if watching Fox News
made you skeptical Democrats okay
that's partisan we can understand that there are
a wide range of opinions about what types of policies economic social or
otherwise are good or bad for the country
and there's no question that watching Fox News will certainly skew you in the
direction of being more against a democratic policies and more in favor of
republican policies
they claim they for their fair and balanced they aren't fine
we understand that the problem is this is science
right this is science and Fox News viewers and listeners a rush limbaugh's
the study goes on to add
are distrusting science because a smear campaign
and what is happening is very very real students are showing up to college
under-prepared
American students are falling behind foreign students in science and math
um and if you went to fox news about this and ask them about the studies
they would tell this as a victory you know that they would they would say hey
we're glad that our coverage is making people question
all aspects up information that they're being fed regardless of who it's coming
from
even if its so-called elite scientists and
this is very very dangerous this really is because like I said
nobody believes fox news is fair and balanced even the people who work there
is jim you know the Fox News mall told us a month or so ago
when he was interviewed on this show we know about that and that's kind of
political bias
but when people are starting to distrust science and instead trust hand-picked
minority opinion so-called experts
as determined by Fox News and distrusting actual scientists we've got
a real problem on our hands and
I don't know how we're going to be able to fight this with the exception of
people tuning out these
and this type of media and it is very very dangerous particularly
with how it ties into education so we've got I think about that as well
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