[EGreg]

“It’s as if the goal is not to do science, but to publish and tell an interesting story in your papers.”

Yup, it is the result of the profit motive. I think thanks to the Internet there has become a lot LESS respect for all kinds of views. Every blogger who has comments below can receive pushback. It wasn’t the case when people were simply publishing books with references.

I have taken advantage of this to some extent by interviewing some of the top people in what I am interested in. “Freedom of association”. I didnt even bother posting the videos as public, they are often unlisted.

Tim Berners-Lee

Noam Chomsky

Inventor of Freenet

Grandson of Milton Friedman

The author of Regulation S

Richard Heart from Hex

And so forth. A random assortment of people. Also people building new movements:

Andrew Yang

Tulsi Gabbard

Brock Pierce

Ben Swann

In general, I think people trust institutions less now, including scientists. Look at RFK Jr on Joe Rogan challenging the prevailin establishment on the coronavirus, etc.