Poll Shows Significant Drop In Number Of Americans Who Trust Science

My colleague Mike LaChance reported on a conference being held at Harvard University on ‘Decolonizing Black Health,” including a session that included an homage to ‘indigenous knowledge.‘

Scholars at Concordia University are working to decolonize light — “advancing other ways of knowing about light, science and physics.” Courses will be developed in conjunction with Native scholars to “elevate” indigenous knowledge … while “Eurocentric” science is “de-centered” and “scrutinized for its alleged past and present contributions to colonialism.”

You know, the “Eurocentric” scientific “way of knowing” that brought us germ theory, antibiotics, and life expectancies that are close to 80.

As the elites in academia are moving away from support of the scientific method (consisting of systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses) to “non-traditional ways of knowing,” there has been a corresponding collapse in Americans’ trust in science and scientists. This trend is a marked turnaround from the respect once held for scientific institutions prior to the covid pandemic.