The Inflated Promise of Science Education Catarina Dutilh Novaes Silvia Ivani https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-inflated-promise-of-science-education
We can’t simply teach our way out of anti-science sentiment. Building public trust is as much about power as about knowledge.
ignorance is supposed to be the primary source of widespread anti-science attitudes..This influential conception of the relations between science and society helped underwrite what has become known as the “knowledge deficit model” of science communication. '...addressing anti-science sentiment requires transforming our scientific and political institutions. .... we should look to the broader goal of facilitating cooperation between scientists and citizens (even while we also work to improve science education)... They call for a shift from encouraging public understanding of science to promoting public engagement with science. And they view the public not as a fount of ignorance or a passive recipient of scientific enlightenment but as a reservoir of “local knowledge”—rooted in the expertise that arises from personal experience... Sheila Jasanoff recommends the adoption of “technologies of humility,” whereby stronger citizen participation should improve science governance in terms of accountability.
Rather than focus on the epistemic dimension—what the public knows about science and how it works—this work entails thinking more directly about the nature and sources of trust in scientific and governmental institutions...public distrust is often animated by concerns over spurious interests—above all, monetary or political incentives that are perceived to compromise the reliability or legitimacy of scientific knowledge claims.... countering the spread of misinformation and the political weaponization of anti-science discourse requires much more than well-designed science communication initiatives or even robust fact checking. We must be mindful of the way scientific and political discourses are intertwined...
What we need instead are approaches that respect equally important moral and political factors in shaping the relationship between science and society...Even in an ideal case, no amount of consensus about scientific facts or the mechanisms of knowledge production will eliminate disagreement about the policies we should pursue as a democratic society—a political and moral question that inevitably impinges on values.
Ben of Boston Review posts that "Declining public trust in government and science has recently been thrown into sharp relief, from vaccine skepticism to climate and COVID-19 denialism and QAnon conspiracies. Some observers see an epidemic of bad logic and misinformation, suggesting the culprit is largely a result of poor knowledge and faulty reasoning on the part of individuals."
Comment: Does this also apply to "Modi Magic" & "Hindutva-vadi" ?