Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists
WILLIAM M BRIGGS
FEB 15, 2024
The second sentence of the abstract of a new paper about trust in scientists, which is generally high but in some places low, provides the very reason for distrust: “Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Climate change” is not a crisis, and it is absurd for scientists to claim it is. The covid panic was. But only because scientists in the name of Science first created the damned bug, and then repeatedly botched its “solutions”. What rulers and Experts did to the body politic in the name of Science would make a San Francisco bathhouse habitué blush.
Incidentally, trust in scientists, they say, and not in Science. An interesting and important distinction.
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/academics-blame-lower-trust-in-scientists
