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It may, or it may not. People won’t even take vaccines when over 1000 Americans a day are dying. Perhaps we should tighten up our science news? Speculation i
by melling 5y ago
It may, or it may not.
People won’t even take vaccines when over 1000 Americans a day are dying.
Perhaps we should tighten up our science news?
Speculation is often used against science.
UPDATE
I see my comment was dismissed.
How about a few other people spend some time with climate deniers, and science deniers in general
Living in the our little HN bubble and pretending everyone will do the right thing doesn’t seem to be working.
@dang
It’s not flamebait. It’s clearly a serious problem. The way science is reported in the news in particular is causing problems.
Visit a discussion of vaccines, for example
- dang 5y ago"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- kgwxd 5y agoI think improving the education system would be a better place to start, but I don't expect either thing to happen any time soon.