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They don't educate anything. They generate crackpots who spread more pseudoscience. True science can be explained simply and clearly with good understanding and
by pishpash 9y ago
They don't educate anything. They generate crackpots who spread more pseudoscience. True science can be explained simply and clearly with good understanding and good communication (think Terrence Tao's blog) without dumbing it down.
- natecavanaugh 9y agoThank you for the response, and I will Google Terrence Tao for the link, but maybe adding a link will help others? I don't disagree with you, but honestly, Id rather argue science with a crackpot that only has 50% of the info than the crackpot who refuses to, and can't understand anything above 0%. It's like literacy. I'd far rather live in a world where most people have a 50% literacy rate rather than in a world where 0.5% has a genius level of literacy and the rest are illiterate. Sure it's a weird, cold calculation, but in the pragmatic part, I'm happy to accept the compromise.