People search for agency in their lives. Intellectual arrogance and conspiracies enable people to feel superior in a world that they feel wants to beat and keep them down. Social media enables them a voice and they are heard. They often like to refer to others as sheep and I guess see themselves as wolves. In a world stripped of absolute truth, social media makes all "truths" equal. It's sad on many levels.
That’s not what it is though, and this is a false assumption. While the net affects may very much align with such an assertion - what is being denied as in institutional authority and our sacrosanct trust in it. When you violate the trust of the public over and over because you have transformed yourself into a PR mechanism, and the truths that science discover become locked in patents and litigation and obfuscated by corporate groupthink, what you have is not science denial.
It’s denial of academia and institutions. And if we want to restore the trust in those institutions, then they have to be objective and they cannot be bought, they cannot be beholden to profit interests. Period. They also can’t operate under the policy that Deception is OK as long as it’s for the public best interest. That will always fail eventually and end up right where we are..
The fact that most doctors are completely clueless about nutrition and mostly exist as a human revolving prescription pad, needs to be examined. It’s not exactly their fault, the insurance structure and the way we have written things legally kind of binds and traps them to the point where many family practitioners are not really doctors anymore, but just propagators of prescriptions. If the solution can’t come in the form of a prescription, they probably won’t even order the test for you.
You’re just a number and your complaints will be met with endless prescriptions.
Fix that please, then we can talk about science denialism.
I find there’s something analogous going on with capitalism and the hatred of capitalism. The anti-capitalists (science deniers) use the fruits of capitalism to poo-poo capitalism with. “They don’t know they’re born!” My Yorkshire grandmother might say
I just had another thought too so while I’m at it, tearing your headline down. I’m going to dig into the subject matter of astronomy and just say that NASA fucked up completely by staging fake videos for years. No reason to do this, never should have done it. I suppose they didn’t anticipate 4K+ and it’s affect in upscale and how easy it would be to point out obvious editing from old footage.
We can start there just as easily if you want to talk about the roots of “science denialism”
Is this another face of the same paradox...I'm not a social scientist, and have no data on this, but I do have the ability to type on my smart phone...so I'll type: Possible correlation with a general reduction in the prominence and reinforcement given to character traits in a range around "humility", "respect" & "esteem"?
People search for agency in their lives. Intellectual arrogance and conspiracies enable people to feel superior in a world that they feel wants to beat and keep them down. Social media enables them a voice and they are heard. They often like to refer to others as sheep and I guess see themselves as wolves. In a world stripped of absolute truth, social media makes all "truths" equal. It's sad on many levels.
That’s not what it is though, and this is a false assumption. While the net affects may very much align with such an assertion - what is being denied as in institutional authority and our sacrosanct trust in it. When you violate the trust of the public over and over because you have transformed yourself into a PR mechanism, and the truths that science discover become locked in patents and litigation and obfuscated by corporate groupthink, what you have is not science denial.
It’s denial of academia and institutions. And if we want to restore the trust in those institutions, then they have to be objective and they cannot be bought, they cannot be beholden to profit interests. Period. They also can’t operate under the policy that Deception is OK as long as it’s for the public best interest. That will always fail eventually and end up right where we are..
The fact that most doctors are completely clueless about nutrition and mostly exist as a human revolving prescription pad, needs to be examined. It’s not exactly their fault, the insurance structure and the way we have written things legally kind of binds and traps them to the point where many family practitioners are not really doctors anymore, but just propagators of prescriptions. If the solution can’t come in the form of a prescription, they probably won’t even order the test for you.
You’re just a number and your complaints will be met with endless prescriptions.
Fix that please, then we can talk about science denialism.
I find there’s something analogous going on with capitalism and the hatred of capitalism. The anti-capitalists (science deniers) use the fruits of capitalism to poo-poo capitalism with. “They don’t know they’re born!” My Yorkshire grandmother might say
I just had another thought too so while I’m at it, tearing your headline down. I’m going to dig into the subject matter of astronomy and just say that NASA fucked up completely by staging fake videos for years. No reason to do this, never should have done it. I suppose they didn’t anticipate 4K+ and it’s affect in upscale and how easy it would be to point out obvious editing from old footage.
We can start there just as easily if you want to talk about the roots of “science denialism”
Thank you for this! A great interview with Evan Thompson on this subject recently https://lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/urgency-and-meaning-beyond-the-blind
Is this another face of the same paradox...I'm not a social scientist, and have no data on this, but I do have the ability to type on my smart phone...so I'll type: Possible correlation with a general reduction in the prominence and reinforcement given to character traits in a range around "humility", "respect" & "esteem"?