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What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics

10 mins | Jun 6, 2018
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From mobile phones to microwaves, we owe most of our modern conveniences to scientific discoveries. But Bastiaan T Rutjens, writing in Aeon magazine, points out that we are going through a crisis of scientific skepticism, and attempts to discover what makes people distrust science.

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