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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists think that humans are naturally prone to be skeptical of scientific evidence. | As Felicity Barringer reports at NYT&#8217;s Green blog, scientific evidence reinforces something that communicators have long understood as a guiding rule of our craft: &#8220;[Humans] are hard-wired to respond to external or internal information with emotion and instinct first and cognition second. With emotion and instinct more and reason less.&#8221; In other words, (this is not the scientific way of putting it, either, BTW) we react to information with our...]]></description>
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