Flutterby™! : free market beliefs and science

NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science Lewandowsky, Oberauer & Gignac:

... We report a survey of climate-blog visitors to identify the variables underlying acceptance and rejection of climate science. Our findings parallel those of previous work and show that endorsement of free-market economics predicted rejection of climate science. Endorsement of free markets also predicted the rejection of other established scientific findings, such as the facts that HIV causes AIDS and that smoking causes lung cancer. ... [emphasis mine]

Via Raw Story: Study finds belief in free market economics predicts rejection of science.

I have, obviously, been thinking a lot about my movement from radical free market Libertarian to whatever I am now (I explicitly reject the "progressive" label, but if anyone wants to start a "transgressive" movement I may be a suitable candidate), and I'm wondering if that motion from elegant mental models of how the world is supposed to work to the raw pragmatism of "yeah, the core of human condition is interactions involving the threat of violence" is how I got from there to where I am now.

And how that element of turning everything I was taught about moral behavior on its head could help other people learn to accept reality...