[runako]

1. Much of US policy toward science is backlash to Covid vaccinations. Being anti-Science is a way of preventing Science from inflicting itself on the populace again in the future.

2. Science trends toward meritocracy, which is bad if your goal is to promote a particular social hierarchy.

[Hikikomori]

It's been there so much longer, even Carl Sagan talked about it, and its inherently tied to religion.

[groundzeros2015]

We just did a 30 year run of “religious people are dumb and holding bus back” and it didn’t start a science boom and just made people more unhappy and disaffected.

And 2020 further revealed that science is not immune from politics or its own religious ideals.

[vladms]

Do you imply that last 30 years lacked significant science progress? Even if I ignore the tech ones (simpler to associate with the US), there were quite some impressive progress I heard of in other fields (in which US was significantly involved).

[groundzeros2015]

No, but most certainly less than 1940-1970 which was a much more religious time.

[Hikikomori]

When did this ever happen?

[groundzeros2015]

After your formative years when you were done adopting new ideas.

[Hikikomori]

About as coherent as you would except.