Facts, Science and Trust

Without facts we all agree upon, there can be no science ... and without science, who can we trust?

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By Erik Klemetti
Oct 15, 2024 5:50 PMOct 15, 2024 5:55 PM
Biggest Dinosaur in Europe
Between 1-10 August 2022, a team of Portuguese and Spanish paleontologists has been working at the paleontological site in Pombal, Portugal. (Credit: Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon)

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The 21st century has opened in a very different way than science fiction writers of the 1960s might have imaged. Instead of a world that went all in on science as progress -- "better living through chemistry" and all -- we seem to be entering a century where even the facts, let alone the science, are in question. How did we get here? And what can we do?

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