How Americans got so weird about science

[anon55609254]

@bobtato

I absolutely agree that this antagonism is bad for science as an institution, but I think the problem is, like, 10% academic arrogance and 90% endemic scientific illiteracy. Like with a lot of things, there are valid debates to be had, but we can’t have them so long as we give equal weight to flat-out ignorance.

I wonder if we should emphasize the teaching of the scientific method from an early level, as opposed to just teaching scientific facts. Put the emphasis on science being a way of finding truth, with the acknowledgement that it’s always tentative. Perhaps people would be able to be more accepting of the fruits of science as being the best that we know at the moment, even if they don’t fully understand how the results were achieved.