Adrian Bardon is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, teaching courses on philosophy and science, philosophy and psychology, political philosophy, history of philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Recently published 'The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion' (Oxford Univ. Press 2020).
Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s ineffective pandemic response on an American “anti-science bias.” He called this bias “inconceivable,” because “science is truth.” Fauci compared those discounting the importance of masks and social distancing to “anti-vaxxers” in their “amazing” refusal to […]
