The cost of asking Americans to simply “Trust us”
By Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker
Public confidence collapsed not because Americans asked too many questions, but because too many went unanswered.
Science has never required blind faith.
Quite the opposite.
Science advances by asking difficult questions, testing uncomfortable hypotheses, challenging accepted wisdom, and enabling independent investigators to examine the evidence.
Authority alone has never been enough.
That is why every scientific paper includes a Materials and Methods section. The goal isn’t merely to announce conclusions. It is to provide enough information for others to reproduce the work, validate the findings, or identify errors.
That’s how science earns trust.
COVID changed that.
Too often, Americans were simply tol...