‘Science Is Real’ Versus Real Science

Commentary
Remember “Science”? Of course you do. How could you forget it when your neighbors, like mine, have signs posted in their front yards proclaiming that “Science is real.”
Like many political slogans, including several others of those appearing on the same banner, “Science is real” makes no literal sense but must be interpreted with the help of its political context.
What it really means is that there’s some scientist or group of scientists that has been quoted in the media because they have said things that the media already believe and that, because of their academic credentials, the media also believe that you, the uncredentialed, must believe too….

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