This is a really good article from Scientific American.
Hey, if you're a Republican, and you don't believe that human activity is changing the Earth's climate ...
or, if you have a loved one that didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19, and, well, died ...
or, if you don't think the Earth is billions of years old ... (sorry if that causes a religious problem) ...
this is one reason why. A very BIG reason.
The Reason Some Republicans Mistrust Science: Their Leaders Tell Them To
"Fair enough, but why do so many Republicans distrust government, including government science, and think scientists are “always getting it wrong”? A large part of the answer is that this is what the party's spokespeople have been saying for 40 years, from the early days of acid rain to our ongoing debates about climate change. It was [pollster Frank] Luntz himself who, more than 20 years ago, designed the Republican party's strategy to fight climate change by insisting there was no scientific consensus on the issue. It has mostly been Republican governors resisting mask mandates, even when science showed they slowed the spread of COVID-19. And it was, by and large, Republican governors lifting those mandates in the spring, even while Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, begged them not to."
My take, and my recommendation: trust the scientists -- they know what they're talking about. At least most of the time. But if a Republican in a position of power (like a governor, or a Congressperson, or a Senator) tells you that the scientists are wrong, they are the ones that very likely in error.
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