This book emerged from a series of events on science, anti-science, and pseudoscience run by The Philosopher over the past year. The first half of the volume looks at some of the key questions in the new philosophy of science, while the second half looks at topics like vaccines, the gender wars, and Critical Race Theory, where science and politics meet in highly contested ways. The conversations address a wide range of questions, including:

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• Does science claim to be offering us truth or mere reliability?

• What is the role of facts in resolving our increasingly extreme ideological conflicts?

• If we are to defer to the experts to help us navigate an uncertain world, how do we decide which ones to trust?

• If what we historically took to be good science turned into pseudoscience, and vice versa, why should we assume that this situation will not continue into the future? 

• Is trust in science to be thought of primarily in epistemic terms, or it is just as much a moral, administrative, and affective matter?

• If parts of science are widely understood to suffer from bad methodology, profiteering interests, and status-seeking, why trust science?

• If scientific truth can only be accessed by a tiny minority of experts, what is the relationship between science and democracy?

• Is intellectual independence possible when a meaningful understanding of most areas of life is well beyond the reach of even the educated layperson?