Is scientific progress real?

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Denials of scientific progress from the right and the left

The fact that scientific research has made immense progress over the past years, decades and centuries is taken for granted among professional scientists and most of the lay public as well. But there are others, from both the left wing and the right wing of society, who question, dismiss or even reject the notion that science progresses. One group, which is mostly rooted in the socio-political right wing of society, rejects the scientific consensus on evolution,

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