/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14758350
>Why are people becoming more and more antiscience?
I have 3 hypothesis.
1) Humanities/social science allow pseudoscience in their fields, thus undermining the credibility of the entire institution. This becomes even more of a problem due to these departments and its students usually controlling campus politics;
2) Corruption and favoritism in journals and department hirings, leading to biased publications from sketchy researchers and thus undermining the credibility of science as a whole.
3) Most people, even in the academia, don't really understand why science works and how well it works. Some people put unreasonable faith in science, which is inevitably met with disappointment once they see that sometimes scientists gets things wrong. This in turn leads to a loss of credibility of the institutions of science and makes those people more susceptible to alternative approaches.