Today, acting against scientific evidence is politically expedient: it offers left-wing and right-wing politicians alike an opportunity to court an anti-elite, populist image. But this approach endangers public health and the planet, and some scientists are beginning to worry about the possibility of a new “dark age of political feudalism.”
伪科学和科学盲向来是占星家、庸医和其他没有多少社会危害力的江湖骗子的高发领域。如今，与科学证据作对成为一种政治手段：左翼和右翼政客通过这样做来营造反精英的民粹主义形象。但这一方法有害于公共健康和地球，一些科学家已经开始担心有可能产生新的“科学封建主义黑暗时代”。