Americans are learning a fact "too often overlooked — that one of our country's greatest and least-appreciated assets has been public faith and trust in a variety of highly complex systems staffed by experts whose names we'll never know," Brooke Harrington, a professor of economic sociology, writes.
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Trust is one of the most valuable things anyone, or any government, can have. People are more likely to follow you and your orders/suggestions if they can at least trust you have their best interest at heart, even if they cannot see it at the time.
ReplyDeleteI think the two major issues, I am talking about the US here, that has degraded trust in government and science are the sheer derisiveness of the political parties over the last several decades and the shift to sensationalist reporting of the news.
I have no need to discuss how volatile people can act to one another over differing political views, as we have all see how that has been going for decades. News and social media fan the flames for clicks and traction , where had an individual done these things they would almost definitely be jailed for inciting "unrest".
Then you get the absolutely abysmal quality of modern reporting. As part of me biotec/genetics classes I often have to research scientific news articles on mainline websites. Not only are articles often wildly inaccurate to the studies they are referencing, but the titles are often wildly sensationalized. This doesn't help anything when the majority of people won't read, or be able to comprehend, the papers the news is "reporting" on, but most people only read the headline anyway.