Well, it is sufficiently costly for scientists to be wrong. It is not sufficiently costly for news orgs to spread lies. The voters eat the cost of those lies; temporal discounting alone makes it hard for any reasonable string of accountability, à la an iterative prisoners dillema.
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Scientists are inherently self-critical. If an experiment fails, our first thought is usually "did I do something wrong?" So when disinformation is everywhere, some of us think "did we communicate science wrong??" No, it's not your fault. There are billionaires funding propaganda who are to blame
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