Science can not tell us what is right or wrong, only probabilistic results. People often challenge science because of social stigma of being publicly callous and uncaring. That said, what people often call science is actually a political opinion ignoring very legitimate concerns of culture and community values. Sometimes a scientifically suboptimal outcome is justified by cultural values.
"I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged on Sunday from Fox & Friends presenter Pete Hegseth, who was referring to … germs. The former Princeton University undergraduate and Afghanistan counterinsurgency instructor said, to the mirth of his co-hosts, that he hadn’t washed his hands in a decade. Naturally this germ of misinformation went viral on social media."
"There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.'
"Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray—a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about—the collection of particles that make up what scientists call the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics—shouldn’t be able to do that. Sure, there are low-energy neutrinos that can pierce through miles upon miles of rock unaffected. But high-energy neutrinos, as well as other high-energy particles, have “large cross-sections.” That means that they’ll almost always crash into something soon after zipping into the Earth and never make it out the other side."
"From the Food Babe to Dr. Oz, these four are the media’s biggest fear-mongers and snake-oil peddlers."
"Instead of cherry-picking evidence to support a particular view (and insisting that the science points to a desired action), the various sides could lay out the values they are using to assess the evidence."
"A device called Living Water will convert your tap water into acidic or alkaline water that supposedly is ionized and has antioxidant properties. There is no evidence that it offers any health bene…"
"The anniversary of smallpox eradication is time for some vaccine appreciation."