RE: Science shouldn’t be decided in the courtroom
There are various issues with the current systems in place, the way the media portrays scientific results is incredibly misleading. This leads to the lay person thinking they have knowledge from a credible source which is backed by scientific evidence, their belief is "proven" by science.
Another issues is that we, as a population, have been conditioned to believe that science is infallible, that is can not be questioned. however, any real scientist will tell you that there are no unequivocal truths. Science does not "prove" anything, it supports a theory until a better theory is presented.
What this means is that as much as we may believe that we have "the final answer" right now, in 10-50-100 years from now we will look back on this time and discuss how primitive our thinking was.... just like we do now looking back on theories which are no longer supported.
It can be a hard pill to swallow, that mankind is not as smart as we think we are and science is not as fantastic as some would try have us believe. Acknowledging science has limitations and what those limitations are is the first step to understanding any kind of scientific data presented, by media, or in any way.
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Ha! Yes, that cycle looks very familiar to me! Without a doubt you are correct here. However, it’s really hard not to fall into the trap with a story like this. That said I think the BBC have did a surprisingly good job with a couple of pieces of reporting they did on this 1 2
As a whole, as well, I think sci-com is getting better. Here in the UK I think we learnt a lot from the Wakefield scandal and now manage to have a MMR uptake over 95% and a particularly strong HPV uptake (a vaccine that could have easily have gone the other way a few years ago).
Thanks for your comment and resteem, I really appreciate it!