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Fact vs. fake - why don’t we trust science anymore? | DW Documentary

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Asbestos, climate change, 5G, coronavirus - the public is caught in a battle for the truth. Science is being manipulated and undermined to sway opinion and...

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Because there is science, and there's science, and for a layperson it can be impossible to tell the two apart.

Science 1 is the scientific method we all love since we are toddlers: we try something out, then again, then again, then again - and from that we learn something.

Science 2 is an impostor who has aligned with the oppressors. It uses the language and the coats of Science 1, but will claim cigarettes are healthy or glyphosate is harmless for whoever can pay more.
Do not trust science. Understand it and take it into account rationally.

Science isn't a better religion than any other.

Edit: So all those downvotes are from people who think that science shouldn't be understood, but instead trusted blindly and believed in? Okay then. That sort or defeats the purpose and concept of science but okay.
- I trust that science CAN find an answer, and while there are bad studies, ultimately science is practically the only way to understand the world and find the closest thing there is to objective truth. It does require adequate education to sift the wheat from the chaff, but ultimately the scientific method is one of the most powerful tools humanity has in its belt.
  
  Which is my point, you don't believe in science, you understand its purpose and take information it provides rationally
- If you think evidence-based reasoning is a form of religion, you need to check your house for gas leaks.
  
  Read again.
  
  I think that believing in science is a form of religion.
- Lmao. Ironic you write this on the world wide web, from an electronic device.
  
  Lmao. Ironic that you're trying to be sassy while you failed to read what I wrote properly, and ended up understanding the opposite of what I said.
- The whole point of science is you don't have to trust it because to follow the scientific method, it must be reproducible.
  
  You can read the paper yourself and determine if there are any holes to poke in the methodology or examine any biases. But ultimately, you can reproduce it yourself.
  
  Comparing science to a religion is flawed because religion mandates belief whereas science, by definition, does not.
  
  Science doesn't mandate anything, but people do in the name of science. Covid was a perfect example of that, with so many "doctors" leading a cult (Didier Raoult from France managed to gather so many believers that he ended up having a worldwide impact which slowed down research of a vaccine globally).
  
  Those people do believe in science, and as soon as a "scientist" tells them what they want to hear, they believe it because they think that it's science. If you define science only by the ideal scientific methodology then of course it isn't comparable to religions.

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