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People who believe in conspiracy theories are also likely to oppose wind farms

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Australian and German researchers have found a moderate-to-large link between people who believe in conspiracy theories and rejecting wind farms. They found providing these people with more information also increased their likelihood of supporting wind power, but only if it wasn't presented as a debate. The team says, with the urgent need for wind energy production to reach net-zero targets, preventative measures are more likely to stop these people from their oppositional opinions than just intervening later on with an info-dump.

Journal/conference: Nature Energy

Link to research (DOI): 10.1038/s41560-022-01164-w

Organisation/s: The University of Queensland

Funder: This research was funded by a grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, #SA800/17-1) awarded to K.S. and M.J.H.

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