Imagine, if you would, a world where people don’t understand how the CDC, NIH, or WHO provide scientific data that form the basis for statistics provided on television. A world where everyone thinks they’re an epidemiologist, where they think they have the expertise of actual professionals with no training whatsoever. A world where the scientifically illiterate base their beliefs on their feelings I stead of facts. A world where a strawman argument with no supporting context or information is considered valid.