Bad science or not science?

“Jock's a Scotsman, and he doesna' like whusky.”

“Jock's a Scotsman, and he doesna' like whusky.”

We should be worried about the consequences of far-right conspiracy theories. In Belgium, Professor Marc Van Ranst has been the public face of science related to the COVID pandemic and the Belgian government's response.
The following extract from William Doyle's Oxford History of the French Revolution (pp 64-65) reminds us that things change but things remain the same.
Attempts to interpret the results of quantum mechanics in ways people can understand can themselves lead to confusion.