如今,与科学证据作对成为一种政治手段:左翼和右翼政客通过这样做来营造反精英的民粹主义形象。但这一方法有害于公共健康和地球,一些科学家已经开始担心有可能产生新的“科学封建主义黑暗时代”。2010年,路易斯安那州州长鲍比·金达尔(Bobby Jindal)发起了一项2.2亿美元的计划,试图用沙堤阻挡英国石油公司(BP)油井中的原油流入墨西哥湾。科学家们反对这一计划,指出这样 Right now, working against scientific evidence becomes a political tool: Left and right politicians, by doing so, create an anti-elite populist image. But this approach is detrimental to public health and the planet, and some scientists have begun to worry about the possibility of a new “science feudal dark age.” In 2010, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal launched a $ 220 million plan to use sand banks to block the flow of crude oil from British Petroleum (BP) wells into the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists oppose the plan, pointing out that