One thing that a proper foundational training in science gave me was a deep appreciation of the following fact:

Just because you find something ethically or politically distasteful, doesn’t mean it isn’t still true.

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) October 30, 2021

Indeed. There are certainly tons of things the right disbelieves that science shows very conclusively (such as the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines of late), but there are also many things that the left refuses to believe that are also true or quite likely are substantially true.

A friend of mine refers to this as “dangerous knowledge,” at least some of the items on that latter list, because if they were true it’s probably worse for the world than if they were false.

Sometimes, depending on my mood, I agree with her and sometimes I don’t. But Nils is right: there are truths in science that ethically, politically, and humanistically suck.