Public health, climate: Trust in Science falls
Surveys show a collapse in trust in most all professions, and in most institutions. Science, once trusted, has seen declines in the public’s trust there too. This column suggests one…
Follow up: By 2024, climate change will cause global catastrophe, millions dead
By 2024, cities will sink beneath the seas, Britian will have a Siberian climate, nuclear war, droughts and rioting across the world. It's Just Science.
Trust in “experts” falls over past 4 years
Health care professions, including veterinary medicine, and engineers, are rated highly. After that, the ratings fell off a cliff.
Climate
Dueling Experts
Health-Healthcare
Nation of Idiots
Policy/Government
Public Health/Nutrition
Climate: We must ban all meat consumption
Or, we could just ignore the experts who are generally wrong about everything.
Climate oops: Canadian government study
Let’s pause there for a moment: 6.6 per cent after 80 years is a very small number. Canada has set out ambitious economic growth plans based on high levels of…
Published in Nature: “Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility”
In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to…
Follow up: “Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times”
The NY Times relied upon a software engineer who retrained in sociology to study the intersection of technology and society to write columns on epidemiology topics. The NY Times gave…
Experts: Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong
Source: Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine Expert prediction accuracy is often worse than if random guesses were made. The reason they are bad is…
Skepticism: Why We Need to Think for Ourselves
Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Harvard University with several degrees in multiple disciplines and author of Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial, Intelligence…
Follow up: Authoritarianism is Necessary
When dueling celebrity epidemiologists met social media, a catastrophe occurred: a complete loss of trust in science itself.