Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post

Ironically, most people I meet who are "science deniers" are doing so for good, scientific reasons. They don't trust the appeals to authority. They have been mislead by scientists before. Etc..
Yet many of these same people accept the word of a different authority that is telling them to be a science denier, and/or a bible believer.

I think a big part of the problem could be avoided if people better understood that science can't always give us the answers - sometimes all it can do is quantify the uncertainty. People have a hard time grasping this imo.