jeudi 28 avril 2022

Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part Of Many Rural Americans’ Identity

ETA: Mods. I walked the line for a bit on putting this is politics or social and felt it fell a little more on this side, if you disagree or any discussion veers off more to the other side, feel free to move.

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People in rural areas hold old, well-known anxieties about scientists, particularly when the scientists come from the government. Kristin Lunz Trujillo, a postdoctoral researcher with the COVID States Project, said this anxiety stemmed from an attitude that pits rural, hands-on knowledge against the kind of knowledge obtained from institutions like universities or government bureaucracies — a kind of anti-establishment view that extends to scientists.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...tm_source=digg


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