Wir müssen über die Anti-Wissenschaftsbewegung reden | 6 Lektionen, die Wissenschaftler unter Belagerung auf die harte Tour gelernt haben, und wie wir uns alle wehren können
https://www.protagonist-science.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-the-anti-science
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Thanks for sharing. Sad state of affairs. The tracking website is a great resource.
“Over the last few years, we have seen the gap between science and society widen. While most citizens around the world still believe that scientists are trustworthy and work for the public good, a lot of noise and doubt has been introduced into that relationship by a well-funded, manipulative anti-science ecosystem. We can see the cracks in funding, vaccination rates, muted responses and apathy to a fascist movement feeding US science into the woodchipper.
“Doubt is our product”, has the tobacco industry famously coined. With the modern anti-science juggernaut, we are at this point again. And we seem to be heading faster and faster in the wrong direction, both scientists and society can feel it.
Scientists alone can not defeat an anti-science machinery they did not create. What we can do is ask for help. Give guidance. Start acting and hope others will join.
So to me, the real question of this moments seems no longer whether science can explain itself better to society, but whether society is willing to defend the conditions under which evidence-based discourse, and with it science and democracy, can still exist.
The answer is up to all of us.”
How about we start with forbidding big corporations from bribing scientists and secondly, keep liberal scientists from hiding or skewing evidence if it doesn’t fit a political agenda. Then we might restore some trust in the scientific community.
I wonder how much is actually anti-science, and how much is just people pushing back and questioning because of so much corruption.
When explaining complex scientific theories to someone you feel is a little “so so”, make sure you’ve relieved them of any matches, lighters or other flame generating items. When the idiots get excited, that mob mentality can be very difficult to push back into the bottle.
There is a lot of bad science out there. People take it too far and can’t be objective about it especially about medicine because they or someone they know has been hurt by it. I know probably a dozen people hurt by the antidepressant or benzo epidemic. I honestly only know a couple who also took ADs but don’t blame them for the same symptoms. Theirs are milder though.
There are times when the mistrust is earned.