Trust in institutions has fallen because the institutions have been repeatedly and spectacularly wrong.

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  Even flawed scientistic rigor in policy analysis is preferable to none, since its absence would open the field to irresponsible, ideological policy advice.

  Cowen argues that even flawed scientistic rigour in policy analysis beats none, because its absence hands the field to ideological advice. Cochrane says institutions have been so repeatedly and spectacularly wrong that losing trust in them is the reasonable response. One is defending the practice against its failures; the other is counting the failures.

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• Trust in systems and each other has been eroding for years in the U.S. because people are being repeatedly failed by the systems around them. KJKatelyn Jetelina9 Oct 2026
• Institutions fail not because people are wicked, but because evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights flow in the wrong direction. RKRohit Krishnan26 May 2026
• Machiavelli held that every institution is gradually corrupted and must be reformed back to its foundations or collapse under the weight of that corruption. APAda Palmer16 Jun 2026
• You cannot tell a failing institution from a healthy one by looking: the parts visible from outside are the parts that least reflect its actual health. SBSamo Burja24 Apr 2018
• When institutions can only offer compromised care they end up calling it best practice, and the patients who do not get better conclude that they themselves are beyond help. JSJonathan Shedler27 Jul 2026

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