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How Science Lost the Public’s Trust

4 pointsby gpayanalmost 4 years ago

3 comments

_ahalmost 4 years ago
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wkearney99almost 4 years ago
Coming from a Murdoch-owner paper... I have some doubts...
quantifiedalmost 4 years ago
Lacks much data to back up the claims, a few anecdotes here and there. Basically a description of one person’s feelings, and doesn’t distinguish science from the journalism that informs or misinforms the populace of it. The scientific establishment has always rejected new thoughts in established areas, plate tectonics comes to mind.<p>Meanwhile, it seems to me that science becomes “political” when the results suggest people should behave differently than they want to, and “apolitical” otherwise. Science that produces car-powering batteries, rockets you can voyage on, tells you where to find fossils of a certain kind? Rock on. Science that tells you that you need to use a condom, get a shot? Not so much. And science didn’t make a covid vaccine political.