The knowledge deficit model—that educating citizens better will yield support for science—has failed empirically, with science education and evidence-refuting interventions showing little effect on attitudes, so it should be abandoned as insufficient.

Evidence

The Inflated Promise of Science Education (Boston Review)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Stevens embodies Giddens’s faceless commitments, but Luhmann shows system trust enables ethical abdication