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What causes people to distrust science?

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What causes people to distrust science?
« on: 26/05/2023 15:15:24 »
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Re: What causes people to distrust science?
« Reply #1 on: 26/05/2023 17:43:15 »
Mainly, liars.
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Re: What causes people to distrust science?
« Reply #2 on: 26/05/2023 20:02:31 »
Half-truths, religion, politics, marketing, and bad science.
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Re: What causes people to distrust science?
« Reply #3 on: 29/05/2023 18:45:45 »
No Faith in Human Intellect
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Disbelief in Human Intelligence
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Re: What causes people to distrust science?
« Reply #4 on: 31/05/2023 11:55:11 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 26/05/2023 20:02:31
politics
More widely, peoples values in general, science is everyone's best friend when it's telling them what they want to hear.
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Re: What causes people to distrust science?
« Reply #5 on: 31/05/2023 12:01:22 »
...which is exactly the currency of half-truths, religion, politics and marketing.
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