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The lead-up to and outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election led prominent scientific leaders and politicians to declare that a significant portion of America simply no longer accepted scientific fact. In a Policy Forum, Stephen Hilgartner and colleagues argue that lumping Americans into pro-science and anti-science factions, as happened recently, misdiagnoses the problem. They say confusing political dissent with an all-out rejection of science has ultimately damaged the public authority of science. Was science really on the ballot? Is it useful to imagine U.S. citizens as divided into pro-science and anti-science camps? Does the label anti-science serve the purposes of deliberative democracy? The answer to these questions is plainly no, write Hilgartner et al. According to the authors, to restore the public authority of science, policy leaders must learn to recognize when disagreements over scientific facts reflect deeper disagreements over social values and comp