Trusting the $cience

Behind the pearl clutching and handwringing, there’s a reason people don’t “believe in science” anymore.

Two New York University professors collaborated directly with executives of the vaping company Juul without disclosing those relationships to academic journals or Congress (Source).

I’m reading Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People, and one of the striking points is that something is an ultra-processed food is that it contains a scientifically tested health claim.

I think a lot of people intuitively know that something’s rotten in our whole scientific establishment. That’s why they embraced either irrational hypochondria or nutty conspiracy theories during our recent mass-hysteria event.

As more of the “mainstream” institutions in society rot: media, religion, academia, we’re only going to see more of this.