Trusting science leaves people vulnerable to believing pseudoscience
The fundamental principle of science is <i>doubt</i>, not <i>trust</i>.<p>“Believe in science” is just a new religion for the intellectual class.<p>Obviously, knee-jerk doubt is no better than knee-jerk trust, but there needs to be a balance, and recently the marketers &amp; manipulators (even those employed by governments, corporations, international organisations, …) have caught up on the fact that labelling misinformation as “science” makes it much more viral…