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Intermediate levels of scientific knowledge are associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science - Nature Human Behaviour (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I have intermediate levels of scientific knowledge and actually believe that I don't know shit about science. Compared to a PhD, I am like a toddler, and yet science fascinates me. Reading about how things work, how some researchers dedicate years to expand human knowledge about a single interaction in the human body or at microscopic scale just fills me with awe.

Yes, there are a lot of issues in the scientific community, publishers, garbarge journals, exorbitant publishing and research fees, unhealthy competition, high barriers for minorities, lopsided financial distribution, the reproducibility crisis, and so on and so forth, but it's the best we have right now, and I trust science a lot more than most institutional stuff right now.