That's not the country I remember growing up in. Not that we didn't have challenges. I'm old enough to remember the 60s and the 70s--got a hot war and a cold war civil rights movement and all this was going on. But I don't remember any time where people were standing in denial of what science was. One of the great things about science is that it is an entire exercise in finding what is true. The hypothesis, you test. I get a result. A rival of mine double checks it. Because they think I might be wrong. They perform an even better experiment than I did, and they find out, hey, this experiment matches. Oh my gosh, we're onto something here! And out of this rises a new emergent truth...
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The problem is that science has been co-opted by scientists with a pseudo-religious bent and transformed in scientism, where the conclusion is pre-determined, the facts cherry-picked to support the conclusion and people who point out how this is wrong are villified.
The phony scientists, with pre-conceived biases are a vocal minority. The louder they become, the bigger the falsehoods. I had a crackpot try to argue with me about the validity of the laws of gravity. Nu...
THE EARTH IS FLAT, UOJ!
Yes, Reb M, but the problem is the old saying, "He who shouts loudest has the floor". How many die-hard communists were there in the Soviet Union? What percentage of Germans were actually believing Nazis, y"sh? Yet they controlled all the people because of their loudness.
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