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What Does it Mean for the Public to “Trust Science”?

by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Sep. 18, 2024) — What does it indeed mean to have a society that “trusts science”? The phrase is invoked everywhere, from policy debates to media headlines, and it implies a near-universal reverence for scientific institutions like the NIH, NSF, and NASA. Yet, beneath this notion of trust […]