> Distrust in the scientific enterprise and misperceptions of scientific knowledge increasingly stem less from problems of communication and more from the wides

> Distrust in the scientific enterprise and misperceptions of scientific knowledge increasingly stem less from problems of communication and more from the widespread dissemination of misleading and biased information. What's interesting about this is that I think it directly contradicts what people like Dan Kahan have been saying (http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/ http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/), which is that motivated reasoning has always been the key problem for science communication, and that the only thing that really changes is not so much the degree of political partisanship but the choice of which scientific issues are the ones that end up being linked to politics. (For example, vaccinations have all the potential to be divisive but nevertheless have almost no political partisanship about them apart from the occasional tweet by Trump.) It seems they put up the videos of the colloquium at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJm1x3XQeK2xwsj2vkRgovtvIWSNstex https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJm1x3XQeK2xwsj2vkRg... Also, I had to look this up, it's an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, which is the Sackler that marketed Valium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Sackler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Sackler), not one of the Sacklers responsible for Oxycontin.