Joel Achenbach's Article, Why Do Many Reasonable People Justify Science?

In the article,"Why do many Reasonable People doubt Science?", the writer, Joel Achenbach, asserts that people disbelief science for a variety of reasons. He first described dogmatism and naive beliefs, which are subconscious intuitions that people cling to, to be the reason why many disbelieve science. He further explains that many are reliant on personal experience and anecdotes rather than hard facts and statistics to come to conclusions and that is why many disagree with scientific findings. Achenbach, in his article, also mentioned that, another reason for the disbelief of science is political where "disbelievers", claim that the purport of science, especially in the aspects of climate change, is a propaganda of climate activists and environmentalists who seek to employ the idea of global warming to attack the free market and industrial society. He also mentioned that the disbelief is science is caused the fact that,
In this essay, however, the focus will directed at the writer’s assertion that, many stick to naive beliefs and dogma based on personal experience and anecdotes on the which basis they disbelief scientific findings. in his article, Achenbach begins the disbelief in the fluoridation of water using from a piece in the comic Dr. Strangelove where a group captain in the Royal Air Force, Madrake, is introduced to fluoridation of water as a dangerous communist plot. According to the writer, many people, being ignorant of the established scientific facts cling to their own intuitions and form a belief system that is incredibly laborious to alter. Basing their conclusions on personal experiences rather than data findings and