4 ms·
Great review of a complicated and developing topic. Best line, and so true: > Unfortunately, because science is all too often taught in school as a collection
by dmckeon 4y ago
Great review of a complicated and developing topic. Best line, and so true:
> Unfortunately, because science is all too often taught in school as a collection of facts, rather than a dynamic process of enquiry, people can be vulnerable to being misled ...
- tdrgabi 4y agoTongue in cheek because I feel nitpicky: Feels like the above quote is misleading as well. It uses the pattern: <because reason suitable to my point> <situation that most of us agree happens>. We agree that situation happens but the reason is not obvious, it just sounds right. Maybe we will always be vulnerable to be misled, regardless of how we are thought, education won't change that, it just sounds pleasant etc...
- moloch-hai 4y agoThe article nicely illustrates by numerous examples how opponents of not yet well-established proposals endlessly trot out long-since discredited assertions in defense of whatever they fought over while in grad school.