Cognitive Dissonance? You Are Talking to a Friend Who Insists

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Cognitive Dissonance? You are talking to a friend who insists that the seasons are caused by a varying Earth- Sun distance over the course of a year. What other fact does your friend likely know that completely contradicts this view of how the seasons are caused? Can you think of other examples of two beliefs that many people feel are both true but which completely contradict each other? How does science view this situation?

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