Natalia Pasternak (right) receiving the Balles Prize in Critical Thinking for 2021 from CSI Executive Director Barry Karr.
Imagine how it must feel to be a science denier. Fueled by misbegotten validation from your reality-distorting echo chamber, you grow ever more confident that all those pointy-headed experts have been lying to us. It is in fact your increasingly belligerent cohort of conspiracy theorists and “truthers” that knows What’s Really Going On, What They Won’t Tell You, and What They Don’t Want You to Know.