And, you’re these various networking tools can become serious drains on one’s time.

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You may have committed several of the (How many?) deadly sins of science, or none at all. I think none at all is the answer. After all, your inquiry was not, of itself, a scientific endeavor.

However, from a logic analysis point of view, the question made two assumptions. One, people do not trust science; and Two, the trust no longer exists.

The first assumption is acceptable. People do not trust science, evidence is everywhere (and some of your LinkedIn respondents rendered excellent examples.

The second assumption, “no longer” is probably erroneous. When, for example, can anyone point to an era when people trusted science. Darwin fretted over publication of his research for a time fearing rebuke from the public. Galileo “enjoyed” the mistrust of his science. Goddard was publicly tried by the press as an idiot for thinking that a rocket could travel in a vacuum. Einstein’s work was initially publicly criticized. Curie’s work initially received the same treatment. There are people who think the LHC is scientific heresy because it might render evidence supporting the string theory. I could go on, at the risk of boring the reader, if I have not already.

I suppose people will never trust something they do not understand, except the concept of a “God” which does not require any explanation or evidence whatsoever. For some inexplicable reason, humans readily accept all kinds mystical concepts without requiring any scientific method, reasoning or logic whatsoever.

Here, (I am speaking of USA), one can go through an entire education with little or no science infusion. Without knowing how to understand science, can we expect people to trust it?

On the contrary, I read that China has more honors students (science, mathematics and related subjects) than the USA has as a total student population. I am not advocating the Chinese education method, but I do advocate a requirement that some immersion of science be a part of everyone’s education, even if the students are not destined to be scientists. Until then, as history has shown, the public in general will not trust science.

Good article. Thanks for the introduction to LinkedIn. Even more to read now that I know what is going on there. On the downside, if I keep adding to my science sources, I’ll never get to work.

Cheers

Those feminists can be so noisy.