Opinion | How Science Lost the Public’s Trust

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From WSJopinion: From climate to Covid, politics and hubris have disconnected scientific institutions from the philosophy and method that ought to guide them

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‘Science” has become a political catchword. “I believe in science,” Joe BidenBut what does it mean to believe in science? The British science writer Matt Ridley draws a pointed distinction between “science as a philosophy” and “science as an institution.” The former grows out of the Enlightenment, which Mr. Ridley defines as “the primacy of rational and objective reasoning.” The latter, like all human institutions, is erratic, prone to falling well short of its stated principles. Mr.

Mr. Ridley, 63, describes himself as a “science critic, which is a profession that doesn’t really exist.” He likens his vocation to that of an art critic and dismisses most other science writers as “cheerleaders.” That somewhat lofty attitude seems fitting for a hereditary English peer. As the fifth Viscount Ridley, he’s a member of Britain’s House of Lords, and he Zooms with me from his ancestral seat in Northumberland, just south of Scotland, in between sessions of Parliament .

At Oxford nearly 40 years ago, Mr. Ridley studied the mating patterns of pheasants. His fieldwork involved much crouching in long country grass to figure out why these “jolly interesting” birds are polygamous—unlike most other avians. With the Canadian molecular biologist Alina Chan, he’s finishing a book called “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19,” to be published in November.

It will likely make its authors unwelcome in China. As Mr. Ridley worked on the book, he says, it became “horribly clear” that Chinese scientists are “not free to explain and reveal everything they’ve been doing with bat viruses.” That information has to be “dug out” by outsiders like him and Ms. Chan.

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opinion Public trust of science has been a majority based on facts for decades. In 2019, 88% of Americans believed in science including 89% of Republicans. In 2020, Republicans belief dropped to 45%.

opinion Smart people have not lost trust of science. I don't know what this author is trying to justify.

opinion Or ‘How sections of the public lost their minds’

opinion Maybe, but social media and deliberate lies and propaganda by news outlets have poisoned American society against itself. A truly disgusting state of affairs.

opinion More absolute tosh from Politics.

opinion TL;DR— a fellow at a neoconservative think tank gives platform to an unqualified “science writer” who doesn’t know how science works.

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opinion OMG - science lost part of the public’s trust cause we had moron’s in power positions that were telling people not to trust them ….

opinion US, learn your lesson on not following science on Covid handling: 35M infected n 627K died.

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