In response to a recent essay in Boston Review on public trust in science, I point out what’s the real problem with today’s mainstream science narrative.
The current skepticism surrounding scientific areas of contention like global warming/anthropogenic climate change, vaccine safety/efficacy, and GMO safety etc hasn’t arisen from one’s own adherence to personal beliefs and tendency to swing this way than that; it stems from the issue of inconsistency. The so-called “settled” status of science, many of us know, isn’t settled per se. Studies have reported over and over the problems with the self-professed validity of the mainstream narrative on these research issues. So it is natural to be curious about the inconsistency.
Read full article at http://www.ernestdempsey.com/why-is-science-really-losing-public-trust/ .