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Mongo, Peter Shor,  your humble servant . .  .

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12786#comments

Peter Shor says:
April 7, 2022 at 9:03 am

I would have to disagree that there’s no anti-science movement. Having talked to a teenager who was educated in a Christian school, she was definitely taught according to an anti-science viewpoint—that you can’t trust anything scientists say, because they have their own self-serving motives for saying these things. (This may actually be true to a much lesser degree—look at the string theory apologists. But the best lies contain an element of truth.) And I have to assume that this viewpoint is reasonably common among evangelical Christians, who make up around a third of the U.S. population.