> encouraging people to trust untrustworthy sources for information which doesn't necessarily square with the scientific evidence
To offer up some compassion to those people, you have to remember that we're daily barraged with p=0.05 experiments getting breathless coverage in the media. "Scientists say peanut butter cures cancer." "Scientists say peanut butter causes cancer."
Remember back when it was going to be a new Ice Age? Now it's "Global Warming?"
The media's coverage of science does not portray research in the proper light, does not give context, etc.
So I have a lot of sympathy for people who are skeptical of trusting "science."
> encouraging people to trust untrustworthy sources for information which doesn't necessarily square with the scientific evidence
To offer up some compassion to those people, you have to remember that we're daily barraged with p=0.05 experiments getting breathless coverage in the media. "Scientists say peanut butter cures cancer." "Scientists say peanut butter causes cancer."
Remember back when it was going to be a new Ice Age? Now it's "Global Warming?"
The media's coverage of science does not portray research in the proper light, does not give context, etc.
So I have a lot of sympathy for people who are skeptical of trusting "science."