Mistrust of our governments, our institutions, and each other is leading us to a crisis of reason.

In Brazil, forest fires rage across the Amazon, burning vast swathes of the rainforest, presided over by a leader who believes climate change is a “Marxist plot.” In America, health-related misinformation has become an epidemic of its own. And in Europe, country after country is losing their hard-earned measles-free status as the anti-vax movement becomes more potent by the day.

Our new channel, War on Science, will tackle these issues deeply, with human-centered stories at the forefront. We’ll look at how these movements are created and allowed to thrive, examine how they affect policy, health and climate, and meet the people who are fighting back.

Access to all the knowledge we have ever gathered is at our fingertips. But that also means that once-fringe movements are coming to the center, and disinformation, pseudoscience, quackery and denialism are banding together to wage a war on what they call the “orthodoxy” of expertise, nullifying the mountains of evidence against their position.