Doing One’s Own Research on Scientific Matters–A Distinctly U.S. Phenomenon

I’m sure this isn’t the only Halloween display in this vein in 2022, but it’s certainly clever. Somebody deserves credit.

Denial of science in favor of what crackpots say on social media is a phenomenon that, we can only hope, is going to be short-lived in our society.

And, as far as I can tell, it’s distinctly American.  We don’t see people in Western Europe and the rest of the developed world kicking modern medicine to the curb.

That said, we’re a different breed of animal.  Neither France nor Japan elected a president who suggested swallowing bleach as a cure for COVID-19.