The need to combat the spread of knowledge rejection is urgent.  In a number of areas, this is a matter of life and death.

In efforts to mitigate the growing devastation of our planet, widespread denial of climate change wastes precious time in the implementation of practical, effective remediation measures—thereby dooming more people in the foreseeable future to death by famine and other natural disasters, as well as in the fierce battles over food and other survival necessities that are bound to follow.

The survival of a different kind of life depends on whether and how we respond to mortal threats to democratic government—where we’ve already seen widespread rejection of the validity of our elections, complete with a mob assault on the US Capitol, based on the flimsiest of so-called “evidence” and the incitements of leaders with a clear personal interest in subverting actual democratic processes.