While concern about public irrationality and antiscientific movements is not new, the
increasing power of right-wing populist movements that promote distrust of expertise and of
scientific institutions gives such concerns a new context. Experience with classic
pseudosciences such as creationism, and the long-running efforts by defenders of science
to oppose such pseudosciences, may also help us understand today's post-truth populism.
The politics of creationism and science education in the United States and in Turkey does …