>>11862274Dealing with individual science worshipers is interesting, especially when they themselves don't have a scientific background.
I recently spoke to a good friend of mine who is by no means associated in any way with the sciences, and we somehow had approached the topic of the heredity of political views. I sort of casually mentioned the wealth of evidence behind it and he stopped me, saying he didn't believe in the heredity of vague mental traits like that. I was a bit annoyed at his willingness to simply come up with his own little AU where evolution stopped at the neck, but I asked if he wanted to read a few papers on the topic that I could show him. To that he just dismissed the idea, saying he'd have to read them, validate the authors, their methods, etc. and sort of left the topic hanging because he didn't want to deal with the mess of it all and it was easier to take a faith-based approach.
The way people think they are now the arbiters of real science, because certain findings don't fit into their narrow-minded worldview is more pervasive now than perhaps even in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism has made a huge resurgence among the general public and most biologists (who actually want to keep their jobs). I think the best way to combat it is actually to pull funding from these universities where the ideas originate. Nobody with a gun to their head that will fire depending on the conclusions they make in their next paper is able to do real science. We need to make normies see just how beholden to narrative science really is nowadays.
