Why young men are losing faith in science(nytimes.com)
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Why young men are losing faith in science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/opinion/manosphere-science-young-men.html
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It's epistemological. Humans live in folk science causality which is what myth, narrative, news (and op-eds like this) feed us like heroin to addicts.
Science is anything but: correlations extended in time-space.
The only solution is chuck storytelling.
Science is anything but: correlations extended in time-space.
The only solution is chuck storytelling.
It doesn't require any faith. That is the thing about science, with a few very basic steps, it proves itself. There is only knowledge and experience. These disenfranchised men need to get off the internet and out of their echo chambers and out in the world, challenge themselves to prove these things. Extrapolate their own conclusions.
I was once a young man
No one cared what I believed in back then
As an older person now, I see why no one cared what I thought as a young man on some topics
Why is it any different today?
No one cared what I believed in back then
As an older person now, I see why no one cared what I thought as a young man on some topics
Why is it any different today?
Just remind kids stories don't exist. They're figments of our imaginations, and that's where debunking scientific discourse begins and ends.
Give them jobs and they will believe
This article is no different, and mistakes modern problems for old-fashioned causes. "People got their ideas from the wrong sources" is really all this article offers and really doesn't scratch the surface why extremist ideas are propagating so much nowadays, or why culture is splintering and trust in institutions is so low.