[dogleash]

> How are others processing this horrific backsliding in scientific trust

Tragic, but we sleepwalked into this state of affairs by downplaying the severity of epistemic failures in academia and science communication.

Oh it's just a little publish or perish here, replication crisis there. Nobody really believes the clickbait headline. Overall we're on a solid foundation. Science means rigor, right? So the word science means rigor was done. Getting mad at someone for over-correcting won't make them feel more righteous.

We have failed our fellow countrymen.

[watwut]

No, this is result of intentionally and well paid propaganda. It has nothing to do with failure of science or academy. Even less with publish or perish.

This is happening because some rich people radical right on republican side wanted to happen. Smart conservatives worked for this for years. They knew they are lying, but it did not mattered to them.

Blaming others is just another round of enabling. Blame shifting away from who intentionally caused this wont help anyone and does not reflect the truth.

Also, publish or perish thing is literally something the same people actively worked for.

[krapp]

This seems like a bit of a retrofiction. People weren't pushing the anti-vaccine narratives because of the replication crisis, rather they used the replication crisis to justify their pre-existing mistrust of vaccines.

The science around vaccines is actually sound, there's was no "replication crisis" or failure of rigor in that regard. Yes, even the covid vaccine was tested and went through clinical trials.

[aredox]

Polls show there isn't an exceptional loss of trust on confidence in the medical system:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.as...

What happened is that the minority of contrarians and FUD spreaders have managed to hitch a ride on Trump's train and be promoted to governance.

[tpm]

This has nothing at all to do with academia and science.