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 3^rd. 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.