The New Yorker: THE MISTRUST OF SCIENCE

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11. This is a good read

Science’s defenders have identified five hallmark moves of pseudoscientists. They argue that the scientific consensus emerges from a conspiracy to suppress dissenting views. They produce fake experts, who have views contrary to established knowledge but do not actually have a credible scientific track record. They cherry-pick the data and papers that challenge the dominant view as a means of discrediting an entire field. They deploy false analogies and other logical fallacies. And they set impossible expectations of research: when scientists produce one level of certainty, the pseudoscientists insist they achieve another.

I love science in the first place, but on a very personal note, my husband had multiple sclerosis. Not a year goes by where some idiocy run by pseudo-science is not proposed as a "cure"-- When the anti-science mind set invades your life, it's infuriating.