Has "the science changed"?
After a year or two of being clear that the science was the science, it appears the science has changed. Eh?
In January, I wrote a piece about how science has been used to bludgeon people who didn't buy a particular stance - on either side. My main point was to becare which scientist you trust - some have motives that are not always pure.
Even when their motive is pure, accepting that science changes is a scientific approach. No people told me; science is science. Facts are facts (except, of course, when they are people's truths and not facts at all). I was assured it was the way it was, whether I believed it or not.
Well, even the firmest believers in this approach can change.
Here is CNN today.
Maybe the issue is that it is not science that changes but our understanding of science, and that approach would show much more humility and look a lot less like lying.
But in the end … it all comes down to the story you are telling yourself.