> what's needed is teaching people good epistemological hygiene. How to read an article, how to respect quantification, what sort of things to be suspicious of,

> what's needed is teaching people good epistemological hygiene. How to read an article, how to respect quantification, what sort of things to be suspicious of, how to find out accurate information and when to withhold judgement. Good luck trying to teach a >20 year old this. When you teach children that the scientific method is useless, logic is not necessary, and therefore Creationism is fine, repairing that "damage" once Children are older is pretty much impossible. You have "habituated" them to the lie, just in the exact same way that "child soldiers" and "terrorist" get habituated. Part of the habituation process is making them personally invested on the lie, e.g., for a child soldier or a terrorist that's their first "kill". From that moment on, either they are right, or they are a horrible human being. Same here, it might start with Creationism, then shaming someone for wanting an abortion, etc. One of these is going to be their first "kill" moment, their point of no return, and then the only way to "heal" is for them to discover that they are horrible human beings. Pretty much impossible to heal in practice. In the exact same way that this is not the child soldiers fault, it is not the fault of children that have been educated their way to end up raiding the capitol. I'd go as far that it is not the fault of these children to even then lobby as adults for the process to continue, for more creationism, for more extremism, etc. Maybe at some point someone in the USA was at fault for allowing this to happen. But at this point I think that a big part of the population particularly in central america are just victims of the system. They were raised into what they are now, and lots of psychological hard work would be required to "fix" any single one of them. Simplifying this issue to "this people are just dumb, and facebook should send them a link to a page that teaches them how to read" would be as effective as trying to address terrorism by repeating on TV that killing people is bad.