Uncertainty --- This is one of the most underrated aspects of science. Most people tendo t think that changinng information is a weakness in the knoledge because poeple use to want certainty and absolute answers. We as humanity are used to religions, ideologies, philosophies that promise definitive answers. Of course, they don't provide such thing but just the promise make the people fells better because handle the intrinsec uncertainty of rea is not easy. However, science is the only kind of knowledge that asumes with honesty this uncertainty and hence makes changes and correct itself all time. This undermine public confidence and open the path for "messiah" as we seen in the pandemic. Even worse, after is evident messiah are wrong, people tend to remain attached to them denying realitie which is particularly dangerous when dealing with an illnes. Disinformation is one of the main fights science have to face, not providing static information (which is immpossible) but changing public and policy-makers mindsets

Source author: Carlos Arturo Garcia Bonilla carlos.garcia@cancilleria.gov.co