Asbestos, climate change, 5G, coronavirus - the public is caught in a battle for the truth. Science is being manipulated and undermined to sway opinion and...
A majority of people actually believe in science without any understanding. That’s why so many bullshit articles start with sentences such as “scientists say”, “a study proved”, “according to science” and it convinces people. When a guy like Stephen Hawkins said that aliens exist because he believes so, every alien-believer started using it everywhere as proof that aliens exist: they exist because a “scientist dude” said so. No one cares about protocols, meta-analysis, etc, because it is not rational but a blind belief; most don’t even know how science is done and what a protocol is.
And I’d top that off by saying that anyone knowing how science works, knows that any “truth” of science is very likely to be wrong until decades and decades of additional studies. But people take the hottest latest studies and start venerating them as if they can never be wrong. No rationality, no bayesianism, just an almost religious vision of science.
A majority of people actually believe in science without any understanding. That’s why so many bullshit articles start with sentences such as “scientists say”, “a study proved”, “according to science” and it convinces people. When a guy like Stephen Hawkins said that aliens exist because he believes so, every alien-believer started using it everywhere as proof that aliens exist: they exist because a “scientist dude” said so. No one cares about protocols, meta-analysis, etc, because it is not rational but a blind belief; most don’t even know how science is done and what a protocol is.
And I’d top that off by saying that anyone knowing how science works, knows that any “truth” of science is very likely to be wrong until decades and decades of additional studies. But people take the hottest latest studies and start venerating them as if they can never be wrong. No rationality, no bayesianism, just an almost religious vision of science.