Flashcards Friday! How to Talk to Someone Who Doesn’t Trust Science

Flashcards Friday! How to Talk to Someone Who Doesn’t Trust Science

It’s Flash­cards Fri­day, and today I want to talk about some­thing that mat­ters as much as any exper­i­ment: how we talk to peo­ple who do not trust sci­ence. Not how to win an argu­ment. Not how to humil­i­ate some­one with a fact. How to build a bridge. Because sci­ence does not spread by vol­ume. It spreads when peo­ple feel safe

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Hobbes v. Boyle: Who Decides Scientific Facts

Hobbes v. Boyle: Who Decides Scientific Facts

In the 1600s, philoso­pher Thomas Hobbes and exper­i­men­tal sci­en­tist Robert Boyle clashed over a strange new machine, the air pump, and a dan­ger­ous ques­tion: when should soci­ety trust sci­en­tif­ic claims, and who gets to decide? Their dis­agree­ment wasn’t just about experiments …