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Scientific specialisation is now so extreme that even people studying neighbouring subjects within the same discipline can no longer understand each other. The detail of modern science is incomprehensible to almost everyone, which means that we have to take what scientists say on trust. Yet science tells us to trust nothing; to believe only what can be demonstrated. This contradiction is fatal to public confidence.
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Perhaps we have to accept that there is no simple solution to public disbelief in science. The battle over climate change suggests that the more clearly you spell the problem out, the more you turn people away. If they don't want to know, nothing and no one will reach them.
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No amount of evidence can shake the growing belief that climate science is a giant conspiracy dreamt up by boffins and governments
to tax and control us
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Fixing the communications failure and
Government 'scientific advisers': who needs these nuts in white coats?
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