Public ‘largely ignorant’ of replication crisis in science

"“The reproducibility crisis fits with a larger narrative of AfD sympathisers,” said Dr Mede, who in previous work has studied “populist” attitudes towards science and scientists. Populists often reject the scientific method in favour of “gut feeling” or “common sense”, he said, and may view academics as part of a distant elite." Lets take a few steps back, for a moment, the AfD is to the right but 'far' right? And it's not only 'populists' that do the 'feelings' thing, that's predominately a left wing tactic, as anyone who's dealing with facts soon gets the lefts "my feelings matter more than your facts" thrown in their face. That is except when using scientific results and opinions as a weapon and where claims of scientific consensus are used to bolster their argument. Unfortunately many academics do present themselves as an 'elite', distanced as they are from the day to day realities of life outside their often narrow academic field, those that can effectively engage beyond academia are very few and far between and distained from within academia for doing so, those from working class backgrounds especially so...