@ScienceDesk Every couple years, someone has to trot out the "people don't believe scientists because scientists" thing. It's so fucking tiring. https://smallpondscience.com/2020/01/18/the-deficit-model-of-science-communication/
People believe what they believe mostly because it makes them feel good or it allows them to tell themselves a story about how the world makes sense. They mostly don't care if it's true. Scientists are the ones who care what's true. Scientists should do science and communicators should do communication.
@ScienceDesk “certainty” in a world full of unknowns - that isn’t a failure of science, it’s the direct result of RW politicians undermining public education to such an extent that there’s a broadly held idea that there are simple, pat answers to complex problems. Maybe the problem isn’t science, it’s a public that has walked away from doing hard work.
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