1. Much of US policy toward science is backlash to Covid vaccinations. Being anti-Science is a way of preventing Science from inflicting itself on the populace again in the future.

2. Science trends toward meritocracy, which is bad if your goal is to promote a particular social hierarchy.

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Hikikomori 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's been there so much longer, even Carl Sagan talked about it, and its inherently tied to religion.

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groundzeros2015 an hour ago | parent [-]

We just did a 30 year run of “religious people are dumb and holding bus back” and it didn’t start a science boom and just made people more unhappy and disaffected.

And 2020 further revealed that science is not immune from politics or its own religious ideals.

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Hikikomori an hour ago | parent [-]

When did this ever happen?

	▲	groundzeros2015 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		After your formative years when you were done adopting new ideas.