Trusting Science

Here’s a funny little meme on Americans’ pathological distrust of science.

Most of the people who reject science are selective in the type of science they reject.  Most of these nut-jobs accept that we shoot rockets into space and that doctors know how to set broken legs.

The line of demarcation seems to be scientific disciplines whose activities may benefit anti-capitalists and damage civil liberties.  Both pandemic control and climate change mitigation require some level of sacrifice.  Ergo, they are both fake.