A five-point scale (“almost all the time,” “fairly often,” “sometimes,” “not very often,” and “almost never”) was used to estimate compliance with preventive behaviors.

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Conforming to the consensus is not always recommended. Plato and Galileo both refused to conform, and this helped them to drive society to higher levels of philosophical and scientific understanding, respectively. However, if opposition to the consensus is driven by an illusion of understanding and if that opposition leads to actions that are dangerous to those who do not share in the illusion, then it is incumbent on society to try to change minds in favor of the scientific consensus.

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