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I think the article is very "colorful". It does address a real problem though. If public officials want to nudge people towards a behavior, we will get a respec

I think the article is very "colorful". It does address a real problem though. If public officials want to nudge people towards a behavior, we will get a respective study that supports it. We see this with diversity in the field of economics or in countless studies about climate change. Another problem here is that you can turn something that is true into a lie. And people in opposition suddenly have an excuse to reject any findings. Science gets a bad reputation too which can have severe consequences.

goatsneez 5y ago
We should explicitly separate "science" as an institution and science as " personal mode of inquiry about natural world" (both commenters done that properly but implicitly). Clearly science as institution is on trial here (deservedly so). Any ideas how to go from here and in which direction, and who should make/implement that decision?