Science didn’t collapse.
It was hijacked.
By people who don’t read data.
By people who don’t run experiments.
By people who don’t even know how science works.
But they write the headlines.
Sit on the panels.
Shape the rules.
And now real scientists have to play defense.
Hanson represents the calcification of public thought - an ossified relic of white anxiety, preserved and paraded like a national artefact long past its relevance.
She is what happens when grievance becomes a lifestyle, and ignorance becomes a brand.