Quantum of Science

Those of you who attended European Conference of Science Journalists in Toulouse 2018 are familiar with me and story I was telling you. Remember – it was about desecularization and antiscience movement in Eastern European countries, in my case, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I emphasized that science is connected to politics, and that far right and far left parts of the political spectrum have strong antiscience sentiment. I said that there are four riders of antiscience apocalypse – climate-change deniers, anti-vaxxers, anti-GMO activists and those who reject Darwin’s theory of evolution. Unfortunately, antievolutionists are part of the Bosnian political elite. Bosnian society is deeply divided by all kinds of political, ethnical, religious and economic divisions and gap. This led us from democratic to pseudo-democratic atmosphere. And the worst is yet to come – those elites raised their “jugend”: young, very conservative, far-right, xenophobic and homophobic young members. ...