{"title":"Post-truth, anti-truth, and can’t-handle-the-truth","authors":"Robbie M. Sutton, A. Petterson, B. Rutjens","doi":"10.4324/9781315114903-11","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"People generally report positive attitudes to science and scientists (Gauchat, 2012). It is valued for the contribution that it makes to social, cultural, and economic progress. For many people, indeed, faith in science is akin to religious faith and may serve some of the same psychological functions (Rutjens, van Harreveld, & van der Pligt, 2013). Science is supported by investments of large sums of money; according to World Bank statistics, fully 2% of global gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on research and development, and the richer the country, the higher this proportion grows (The World Bank, 2018). But, paradoxically, science is also frequently opposed: scientific findings and conclusions are censored and suppressed, whereas scientists are silenced, harassed, surveilled, sanctioned, and even persecuted.","PeriodicalId":313574,"journal":{"name":"Belief Systems and the Perception of Reality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Belief Systems and the Perception of Reality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114903-11","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
People generally report positive attitudes to science and scientists (Gauchat, 2012). It is valued for the contribution that it makes to social, cultural, and economic progress. For many people, indeed, faith in science is akin to religious faith and may serve some of the same psychological functions (Rutjens, van Harreveld, & van der Pligt, 2013). Science is supported by investments of large sums of money; according to World Bank statistics, fully 2% of global gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on research and development, and the richer the country, the higher this proportion grows (The World Bank, 2018). But, paradoxically, science is also frequently opposed: scientific findings and conclusions are censored and suppressed, whereas scientists are silenced, harassed, surveilled, sanctioned, and even persecuted.
人们通常对科学和科学家持积极态度(Gauchat, 2012)。它因其对社会、文化和经济进步的贡献而受到重视。事实上,对许多人来说,对科学的信仰类似于宗教信仰,可能具有一些相同的心理功能(Rutjens, van Harreveld, & van der Pligt, 2013)。科学是由大量的资金投资支持的;根据世界银行的统计,全球国内生产总值(GDP)的整整2%用于研发,而且国家越富裕,这一比例就越高(世界银行,2018年)。但是,矛盾的是,科学也经常遭到反对:科学发现和结论受到审查和压制,而科学家则被压制、骚扰、监视、制裁,甚至迫害。