@clacke Great article. Thanks for sharing.

The claim at the end that a paper on the backfire effect was hard to publish because scientists reject new information does not sound too credible in my ears, however. Stephan Lewandowsky already told me years ago that the backfire effect was not something to worry about, that if it happens it would be in cases where people do not process the information actively.

So maybe the paper was just not that good or that new.