Using science and experimentation as a means of understanding our world and shaping our futures is critical to everyone on this planet. Science can be very complex and there are many technical specialities and so populations have great reliance on experts and scientists and how their work is interpreted and applied. However, Many people now have great difficulty in trusting science and experts, because they have seen how many publicised theories, proposed as the absolute truth, peer reviewed and so on, have been shown to have inherent bias, bad design or have been corrupted. Alternative experimentation and theories which may provide more truthful or beneficial outcomes, have been underfunded or censored. The lay person may find it impossible to technically distinguish the merits or otherwise of any side in a technical scientific debate, which is why debates are not effective in changing opinion or action.
Steve Krisch has proposed an obvious but brilliant way to gain transparency and trust back, by actually allowing and encouraging all sides of the scientific debate to collaborate in designing and conducting experiments.
Surely, no honest scientist should refuse this?
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-best-way-to-settle-an-argument