A blog post in Psychology Today says that the conservatives and the liberals reject evidence inconsistent with their ideologies.
The report says because of asymmetrical ideological motivation "conservatives are more dispositionally distrustful of scientific evidence than are liberals. Also, symmetrical ideological motivation "...motivates people on the left and the right to reject evidence inconsistent with their ideologies..."
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