Title: Why I Don't "Believe" in "Science" - The Bulwark
Headings: Why I Don’t “Believe” in “Science”
Politics
Why I Don’t “Believe” in “Science”
Science isn't about "belief." It's about facts, evidence, theories, experiments.
Robert Tracinski

Content: It is a way of declaring one’s loyalty to a social consensus. In Andrew Yang’s case, it’s a way of telling his audience that he was literally born and bred in the right social group, the one that preens itself on a very self-conscious image of being “pro-science” and uses this to differentiate itself from it political rivals, whom it casts as obscurantist religious fanatics who are “anti-science.” That’s what I mean when I say that this is an homage given to science by people who generally don’t understand much about it. Science is used here not to describe specific methods or theories, but to provide a badge of tribal identity. Which serves, ironically, to demonstrate a lack of interest in the guiding principles of actual science. Robert Tracinski
Robert Tracinski is editor of Symposium, a journal of liberalism, and writes additional commentary at The Tracinski Letter.