“A recent Washington Post news report stated that the public lost trust because they did not understand scientific claims about facts”
I feel like the root cause here is education. We as a society lost the ability to critically think, so to the general public, there are all sorts of false equivalences from random influencers to useful idiots like Joe Rogan, to wildly ignorant presidents of the United States
chris actual
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2024-12-18 14:28:54 UTC
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