People go all I Fucking Love Science for statistics, any statistics, just because there's numbers involved, and formulas and textbooks and whatnot. Instant credibility, regardless of whether at root the project of labelling all uncertainty with numbers makes sense.

— Sridhar Ramesh (@RadishHarmers) October 16, 2020

“I love science” and “believe science” are clueless takes, just incoherent philosophies. I don’t love science or believe it or disbelieve it. I believe what the evidence says, recognizing that anything in that realm can be stamped by politics and bias, is often beset with poorly-gathered or misunderstood data, and is then further leveraged in inappropriate ways by the power- and money-motivated.

Nevertheless, science does advance and we achieve greater understanding of the universe. However, what we do with elections and polling has little to do with science or even statistics (which is more truly a philosophy with numbers). It’s more akin to astrology with semi-causal feedback loops.

Love science? Believe science? No. I believe in evidence and the weight of wisdom over time.