trust the science
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- expertsHighly skilled practitioners
- dataFacts for analysis
- factsVerifiable pieces of truth
consensus · vaccines · lab · hypothesis · authority · empirical · studies · methodology · credibility · skepticism · verification · clinical · trials · objectivity · belief · doubt · questioning · misinformation
epistemological authority
trust the sciencedo your own research
scientific skepticism · anti-science · follow your gut · contrarianism · folk wisdom
institutional credibility
trust the sciencefollow the money
Investigate by tracking payments
anti-establishment · bought and paid for · controlled opposition
knowledge sources
trust the sciencefolk wisdom
Traditional communal knowledge
common sense · natural law · ancestral knowledge · lived experience · street smarts