Lackner et al. show that individuals with an intermediate level of science knowledge tend to have overconfidence in their own knowledge and negative attitudes to science.
Maybe I am someone the paper is talking about. I am interested in science. I like to use google scholar to check information on things. But I am fucking disillusioned with science for profit bullshit! Yeah, I don't trust it as much as I used to because everyone is a soulless money grubbing husk these days.
Interesting. I have intermediate levels of scientific knowledge and actually believe that I don't know shit about science. Compared to a PhD, I am like a toddler, and yet science fascinates me. Reading about how things work, how some researchers dedicate years to expand human knowledge about a single interaction in the human body or at microscopic scale just fills me with awe.
Yes, there are a lot of issues in the scientific community, publishers, garbarge journals, exorbitant publishing and research fees, unhealthy competition, high barriers for minorities, lopsided financial distribution, the reproducibility crisis, and so on and so forth, but it's the best we have right now, and I trust science a lot more than most institutional stuff right now.