>They believe that these institutions can not be trusted to communicate scientific knowledge free of political bias. >And when you look at it that way, of cour

>They believe that these institutions can not be trusted to communicate scientific knowledge free of political bias. >And when you look at it that way, of course America is the exporter of that. Yes, we Americans are a distrustful bunch. But there's more to this outcome than just being a stubborn, cranky and untrusting people. As Peter Medawar[0] described[1]: The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together. That's one of the other (related, but distinct) circumstances at play in this sort of "gobbledygook." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar [1] https://www.azquotes.com/author/21678-Peter_Medawar https://www.azquotes.com/author/21678-Peter_Medawar