who accepts what

Wild Muse writes about the reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf in Arizona and New Mexico and the months she spent interviewing the ranchers, wolf advocates and government employees in their kitchens, offices and cafes:

'Livestock producers were comparatively less likely than the wolf conservationists or the government employees to accept scientific information about Mexican gray wolves, especially if the specific information, study or survey ran counter to what they themselves had directly experienced or believed to be true …'