The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s become a lethal force." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccine-scientist-warns-antiscience-conspiracies-have-become-a-deadly-organized-movement/
@laurahelmuth The damaged education system is responsible for producing people who don't understand how anything works. They turn to religion and hucksters that talk a good line and say what they want to hear. Institutions of higher education have become sports franchises. People barely read at a 6th grade level. Math knowledge is almost non-existent and even deprecated as something only weaklings and nerds know about.
Meanwhile, China is graduating more engineers every year than the U.S.A. graduates total in all majors combined. Every year.
It took generations to degrade from where we were in the 1960s to where we are now. It will take generations to reverse, if we even try.
The long-term outcome should be obvious and it's not pretty.
