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Eugine_Nier comments on Publication: the "anti-science" trope is culturally polarizing and makes people distrust scientists - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 February 2014 06:00:35AM -1 points [-]

What I just notice is that quite a lot of high profile science like the one in cosmology or elementary particles looks like B.S. for the layman.

I don't think this actually causes much of a problem. Having beliefs about things that happen far in the past that trip up the absurdity heuristic certainly hasn't hurt religion. The biggest problem is BS pronouncements about things that people can readily observe.