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whoa, downboats! I meant, why does it require a scientific study to understand that lying to small children deforms their worldview?
by marmaduke 10y ago
whoa, downboats!
I meant, why does it require a scientific study to understand that lying to small children deforms their worldview?
- jdietrich 10y agoCommon sense is decidedly uncommon. Sometimes science affirms a widely held belief, sometimes it refutes common knowledge and sometimes it leads to a paradigm shift. All these discoveries are equally valuable.
- sjreese 10y agoExactly!
- kazagistar 10y agoEvery time there is a scientific study, someone responds saying it has confirmed their worldview, and is therefore pointless, betraying a deep misunderstanding of the purpose of scientific studies.
- marmaduke 10y agoamusing, I'm a scientist and a parent and yet I don't get it?
- kazagistar 10y ago- Its important to validate the obvious, because sometimes its not so obvious. - Having a flippant, dismissive, repetitive comment provides no value to the conversation and wastes the time of anyone reading.