The Party-Line Split on Trust in Science

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This weird split/divergence is because academia in general and science in particular have been taken over by progressivism. "Science" that impinges in any way on topics of progressive interest is now largely guided by progressive social and political dogma. As soon as progressives announce a new orthodoxy on on just about anything, "scientists" suddenly discover that "the science" supports that position. Climate change, transgenderism, even COVID spread at political protests. The leftist ideological capture of science makes the divergence predictable. It's not that science is proceeding normally and progressiives, being rational, "follow the science." It's that much science has been ideologically captured and now follows the prevailing politics. This is Lysenkoism, the absolute pinnacle (or nadir) of pseudoscience/antiscience.