Darrin Durant, University of Melbourne
Florida recently passed a law which “authorizes county residents to challenge use or adoption of instructional materials” in schools. It’s been described as “anti-science” by individual scientists and USA’s National Center for Science Education.
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From climate change to vaccination, genetic modification and energy security, anti-science is used as a critical phrase implying a person or group is rejecting science outright.
But it’s not that simple.
All shades of political positions are routinely ambivalent about science. Neither the right or left arms of politics are consistent supporters or attackers of science.
Read more: Why politicians think they know better than scientists
If there is no one definition of anti-science that works across all settings, why does it matter that we know anti-science means different things to different people? The reason…
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