When a conservative hears anthropogenic global warming, their brain auto corrects that to, you're against free market capitalism. And the same thing with god. You don't let gun gun control. Yet, you talk about conflicting fat and values here. We see that in all these things. The climate denial isn't really about the climate. Creationism isn't really a bad evolutionary theory, refusing to wear masks. Isn't actually about masks rit it's, oh, this is almost always our proxies for other political, social or theological arguments.
In this interview, based on her landmark book, Why Trust Science?, historian of science Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength — and the greatest reason we can trust it. Drawing vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong, Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy.