Canadian Nobelist wages war on science disinformation

Public trust in science is a big problem in the UK too. It is not helped by the government’s misapplication of statistics at a very public level. This is something we, in the Royal Statistical Society, are taking very seriously.

GovernMENTAL claims of 'following the science' has done huge damage, along with humanities claiming to be 'sciences'.

We should remember that DISinformation is not the same as merely MISinformation. MIS = what we thought honestly was true at the time, but later turns out not to be. DIS =deliberate lies to lead people astray, often to achieve a (nefarious) political end.