Since 1950, life expectancy has increased from an average of 46 to 73 years. Much of that is due to science, though you might not know it from accounts by activists and their political allies in corporate journalism. Medicine is better, food is more affordable, energy is more available at least, and the wealthy under solar panel schemes even get it free.

In humans, females are generally regarded as nicer - though not necessarily to each other. In many mosquitoes there is no pretense at all, males wander around pollinating and eating nectar while female bite you.

China is a communist dictatorship and known to be notoriously lax when officials are not around. Lab employees have been jailed for selling experimental animals in wet markets.

Wet markets like the one in Wuhan, where COVID-19 erupted and devastated the world, where two labs working on coronavirus exist. Where a database of coronavirus has been taken down so no outside scientists can compare pathogens.

During the Obama administration, government decided the way to reduce climate emissions was not to build nuclear plants or something sure to work, it was to mandate and subsidize...CFL bulbs.

That's right, the fluorescent lights that everyone had hated for decades were now going to be given to everyone at reduced cost - while everyone also paid higher utility bills to pay for the bulbs they didn't want but were told they needed to get because incandescent bulbs were being banned.

It was an idea only government could come up with and think it was smart science or economics.

Four years ago California voters passed Proposition 12, which goes around the often do-nothing legislature in Sacramento, which banned any sales of pork in the stare if the processor did not use California standards.

California also does this to companies in things like light bulbs and cars and even gasoline, which leads to higher costs. The state imports nearly all of its pork so the the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation sued on Constitutional grounds, saying that under the Commerce Clause one state could not dictate to all the others how it would occur. 

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Committee for Risk Assessment is unsurprisingly more literate than a San Francisco jury, so they have joined every major scientific body in recognizing that the common weedkiller glyphosate does not cause cancer, or any other ailment, unless you fall into a vat of it and drown.

Like anyone literate, they know plants are not tiny people. The biological pathway that would kill Groot does not exist in humans at all. 

There is a joke told in the science community.

Q: How many naturopaths does it take to treat a disease?
A: 3. One to distract you by telling you that Mercury is in retrograde, one to mix up a potion, and then one to illegally put actual medicine in it.

Despite being told they are scientifically literate - the same way too many nutritionists, dietitians and one BBC journalist have taken to weirdly claiming that Ultra-Processed Foods are not just a new fad label for alternatives, they cause disease and are not even food - a lot of people in the US buy supplements, natural remedies, tonics, potions, salves, and other stuff that doesn't work any better than a sugar pill.

When those the age of my parents bought houses in California in the late 1950s, it cost about $110,000 in today's money. Now the average is 700 percent more. In the early 2000s, health care was not cheap but if you didn't like the health care plan at your job, you could buy your own for a few hundred dollars per month. Since 2012, health care premiums have gone up 300 percent but access is now equal - equally bad. The list goes on.

There is little reason to wonder why so many didn't trust government approval of the COVID-19 vaccine; the public hadn't trusted government science decision-making for decades prior to that, vaccine deniers had simply switched from Democrats to Republicans.

The reason distrust is so endemic is because of epidemiological hype and media outlets treating it like it is science, rather than noting that correlation is placed over in the EXPLORATORY pile and maybe interesting enough for science to prove.