Techies especially are a gullible lot, susceptible to new age nonsense, anti-vax style pseudoscience, and a glut of other anti-science things. At least in the Bay Area. It’s ridiculous to see how quickly they take to any fad.
Probably because they think for themselves instead of appointing someone else to do the critical thinking for them.
They think the ones who are gullible are the ones that hear something on the news and repeat it as fact without ever thinking about it.
Anti-science is anti-politics around science not anti-evidence. Things like questioning the Covid bat theory. Glad to see the news is coming around on the lab theory.
It’s more like they think too highly of their own critical thinking skills and aren’t knowledgeable enough about the science to credibly judge the evidence, then pat themselves on the back for “independent thinking.”
They think the ones who are gullible are the ones that hear something on the news and repeat it as fact without ever thinking about it.
Anti-science is anti-politics around science not anti-evidence. Things like questioning the Covid bat theory. Glad to see the news is coming around on the lab theory.