Open AccessReply [to “Comment on ‘Teaching evolution, the Kansas School Board of Education, and the democratization of science’” The causes of anti‐science views]
Author(s) -
Lin Johnny WeiBing
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/01eo00096
Subject(s) - populism , democratization , science education , politics , white (mutation) , political science , sociology , democracy , social science , pedagogy , law , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
I thank R. Stephen White for responding to my Eos Forum article and appreciate the opportunity to have a dialogue with him regarding these issues. He argues that populism is not the primary cause of anti‐science thinking. Rather, public sentiment toward science is one of implicit acceptance. Anti‐science thinking and actions are cultural anomalies, possibly the result of conservative political activism, religious schooling, or lack of intellectual rigor.