Scientificness

 By way ofPharyngula, there ' s this:   In case you don ' t know, Thomas R. Holtz is one of the world ' s foremost vertebrate paleontologists. And no, there ' s no such thing as the Dinosauria kingdom, dinosaurs are definitely animals, and birds are dinosaurs, just as humans are mammals. I draw your attention to this because it is an epidemic --people who think they know more about a subject than actual experts. They are following the example of their Dear Leader, which is why they can just decide that masks don ' t protect against transmission of Covid-19, that climate change is a hoax, or that taxes on profits cause corporations to raise consumer prices. The dismissal of science, and expertise in general, is extremely dangerous, because it has real social, biological and political consequences. Sure, experts get some things wrong and they sometimes disagree. Human knowledge is still limited and fallible. But some people know a lot more than you do about particular subjects, and your first option should be to believe them.
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs