Politicizing science defeats even well-designed interventions meant to boost accuracy.

Evidence

Unfortunately, as the recent Covid-19 pandemic has illustrated, eliciting an appetite for accuracy is easier said than done when the science itself becomes highly politicized. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 153

Categorization

• QUESTION: What specific accuracy-nudge design failed when science was politicized during Covid, and how does that generalize?
• XREF: connects to: Science deniers exploit science’s unfalsifiability-of-proof to demand equal standing for pseudoscience. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 58; Conspiracist rejection of shared facts destroys policy accountability — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 273; Concentrating research funding can make science more propaganda-proof — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 384 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Science deniers exploit science’s unfalsifiability-of-proof to demand equal standing for pseudoscience. #expands (0.82) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 58
• Conspiracist rejection of shared facts destroys policy accountability #expands (0.75) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 273
• Concentrating research funding can make science more propaganda-proof #complicates (0.75) — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, 384