If you've been raised on a intellectual diet of breakfast television, lip-service superstition, patriotic exceptionalism, and checkbox pedagogy, then you may no

If you've been raised on a intellectual diet of breakfast television, lip-service superstition, patriotic exceptionalism, and checkbox pedagogy, then you may not inwardly digest that knowledge progresses by incrementally pushing back the boundaries of ignorance, or its key corollary, that leading-edge discovery is driven by people with the most nuanced understanding of their own ignorance. The existential confrontation of research processes and discourse is such anathema to a prevailing mindset of certainty and explanation that a psychosis may develop. So bring your kids up to be comfortable with doubt, to inoculate them against becoming conspiracy nuts.