Science may be imperfect, but it’s honestly pretty great. Why do so many people hate and distrust it, then? In this episode Stefani gets to the bottom of it by exploring 1) how science often threatens people’s worldviews and emotional stability, and 2) how the West became a world that so distrusts its once cherished institutions.

Science may be imperfect, but it’s honestly pretty great. Why do so many people hate and distrust it, then? In this episode Stefani gets to the bottom of it by exploring 1) how science often threatens people’s worldviews and emotional stability, and 2) how the West became a world that so distrusts its once cherished institutions.

Science may be imperfect, but it’s honestly pretty great. Why do so many people hate and distrust it, then? In this episode Stefani gets to the bottom of it by exploring 1) how science often threatens people’s worldviews and emotional stability, and 2) how the West became a world that so distrusts its once cherished institutions.

26x: Americans Increasingly Distrust Science: Here's Why

Existentialist philosophers such as Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt once said the modern world has rendered us naked: we are stripped of traditional beliefs, grasping for truths constantly out of reach, and devastatingly aware of our finitude. Is this true? Where do we go from here? Who are we? Who COULD we be? For Season I of this podcast (all currently posted episodes) I ask historians, psychologists, sociologists, and biologists: what does it mean to be human in the modern world?

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26x: Americans Increasingly Distrust Science: Here's Why

26x: Americans Increasingly Distrust Science: Here's Why