> That's the point: that we have trained people to distrust science because most of the "results" people are exposed to are bad popular articles
IOW, our educational system has failed to train people to distrust -- or even to simply critically evaluate -- popular articles on science, leaving them vulnerable to sloppy misrepresentations of science by outlets that usually have neither the skill nor the interest to properly report on it.
IOW, our educational system has failed to train people to distrust -- or even to simply critically evaluate -- popular articles on science, leaving them vulnerable to sloppy misrepresentations of science by outlets that usually have neither the skill nor the interest to properly report on it.