Deliberate ignorance
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Deliberate ignorance is the practice of refusing to consider or discuss logic or evidence disproving ideologically motivated positions. Examples include:
- Howard Dean, a physician, former Governor, and longtime politician, refusing to recognize that taxpayer-funded abortion increases the number of abortions[1]
- evolutionists refuse to address the lack of a plausible evolutionary path for the whale[2]
Common expressions of deliberate ignorance include:
- "I find that hard to believe!" (Howard Dean, June 11, 2008, in response to a fact ignored by liberals[3])
Crime of Deliberate Ignorance
Deliberate ignorance can be a crime. For example, jurors were instructed "to consider whether ... former Enron Corp. executives deliberately ignored accounting fraud as the energy trader fell into bankruptcy."[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/210vssua.asp?
- ↑ This is disputed by evolutionists at a blog worth reviewing further for plausibility here.
- ↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/210vssua.asp?
- ↑ http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/05/11/enron_jury_to_consider_deliberate_ignorance/