https://www.google.com/amp/s/sciencetre ... l-age/amp/
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/War_on_Science
Second, the War on Science is raging. You name it:
-Manmade climate change denial,
-Evolution denial,
-Anti-GMO,
-Flat earth,
-Antivax,
-LGBT is a "social construct".
-Etc. These movements fed on the fertile grounds of the free internet, imprisoning people to echo chambers. The threat from these are far-reaching, ranging from a "mere" coordinated national discrimination of sexual minorities o the collapse of the anthropocenic civilization.
(From the very neutral site that is the RationalWiki) Antiscience proponents often attack science through:
All of this madness surely has a root cause, and IMO it's the general distrust against the scientific/liberal "elites". One of the key phrase of the Brexit campaign is "Don't trust experts". And while the actual Brexit value and debacles is debatable elsewhere, that message is certainly not good.
With the trend so far going in favor of the Antiscience, I feel like a global countercampaign is needed. Flath earth, etc are just a symptoms, and symptoms kill. Problem: I don't know how. For things like antivaxx and climate change, we can F O R C E the solutions as human survival is on the top of our priority scale, and we'll be fine.
That is, until you consider the backlash would be massive, such as the Gilets Jaunes (which while the root cause are a lot (e.g elite decadency), the trigger is the fuel tax). Forcing things will simply backfire horribly wrong. "Letting things slide" however is also not an option either.
Of course we can't forget the Big Factors, e.g Trump and his environment-loving cronies (which is basically the only reason I stopped supporting the Republicans and turns to the Democrats with their... unique socio-economic plans (oh god) ).
That leaves us to the NSG: what are your thoughts about the global war on science, what are the other high-profile wars on science unmentioned here, and your ideas to counter it?
Or do you instead not believe in evolution/is an antivaxx/etc?