Of course everyone, even in America!, is aware of the investigatory
power science took on as soon as adopted a guess and test approach to
acquiring information and generating theories. What the wizards writing
here seem to completely miss is that Americans have terrific doubts
about individual humans because of what they know about human nature,
which includes scientists and their susceptibility to group-think,
pride, deceit, stubbornness, unquestioned ideological commitments, etc.
... some examples.
Climate
change is a classic "Americans are anti-science" boner. Americans are
mainly theists. They think God might have something to say about the
fate of the world. Shocking! So, science wizards, ... when one
specialist is yakking it up on Nat Geo about the utter unlikelihood
that earth would form, get a blast of nickel from colliding with the
moon, ... just enough to keep the core molten and the earth the right
temp for life, ... and in so arguing conclude the opposite of the last
10 years of Nat Geo telling us earth type planets are probably common
and life abundant in the universe, is it any wonder Americans, who pay
attention pretty well, have to wonder what happens to science-minded
people when they have no philosophical training ... no ideological
outlook that isn't tossed about by every new discovery? They conclude
scientists have no idea what to think about the world. They're
overspecialized, under philosophized.
