Candace Owens is a conservative political commentator with her own newly launched podcast. Owens’ pod ranked 4th on Spotify this week and has been as high as 3rd. Only Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson ranked higher.
Donald Trump called Owens “a very smart thinker.”
Candace Owens has the ears of a lot of people, to say the least.
A few weeks ago, Owens weighed in on a science topic, one that most people would consider settled:
“I’m not a flat earther. I’m not a round earther. Actually, what I am is, I am somebody who has left the cult of science.”
What.
Owens continued: “science, what it is actually, if you think about it, is a pagan faith.”
So here we are. Science is a cult, science is a religion, says the pundit with a giant megaphone. Science is not a practice of evidence, data, and peer-review, but a matter of opinion and belief, according to Owens.
Reality: a science fact is true whether I believe it or not. I can think the earth is flat or I can doubt the earth is “round”, but that does not change the fact: the earth is a sphere.
I fear for science literacy.
Janet K. Ray 
Perhaps Ms. Owens should avoid social media entirely including any use of the internet, computers, cell phones, airplanes, radios, even store bought food, since all of that (and pretty much everything else) she takes for granted comes directly from the followers of the cult of science.