A South African woman mourning her husband who died of AIDS covers herself, according to custom, during the burial.
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Whether in situations relating to scientific consensus, economic history or current political events, denialism has its roots in what psychologists call 'motivated reasoning.'
Environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion protest in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Whether in situations relating to scientific consensus, economic history or current political events, denialism has its roots in what psychologists call 'motivated reasoning.'
Exposing people to likely disinformation campaigns about bushfire causes will help inoculate them.
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In mid-2015 the German Foreign Office after decades of denial seemingly acceded, in a very informal way, to labelling what had happened in South West Africa as genocide, is now backtracking.