11/27/2025
As a professional science communicator, I really hate it when scientists keep saying “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
While we should always be working to improve science communication, trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.
Case in point: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/brownstone-institute-vaccines-acip-cdc-jeffrey-tucker-bhattacharya-kulldorff/
