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Would you believe the paper that said that teaching by encouraging research with the scientific method is better? Would be very ironic if it said that it wasn't

• bluGill 3y ago
  Encouraging researching the scientific method is itself indoctrination, though it is done differently from other indoctrination. This isn't bad. I don't think it is worth you while to research cannibalism, or a number of other things that people have done/believed in over time. Even if you come to the "right conclusion" there is just too much too research to look into everything people have come up with. My life is worse because I - a non-doctor - had to research all the anti-vaccination claims to see if they really were baseless (they were, but I know from history experts are not always right and once in a while a conspiracy really does occur)
  • c0pium 3y ago
    > Encouraging researching the scientific method is itself indoctrination Of course it’s not. Indoctrination is encouraging belief and adherence without question, the scientific method is to only accept after rigorously questioning. It’s trivially easy to apply that recursively. One who questions the scientific method is then by definition not indoctrinated and has not reached their belief via indoctrination.
  • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > Encouraging researching the scientific method is itself indoctrination If you're thinking critically about it (i.e. testing it, questioning its predictions and assumptions, et cetera), it's not indoctrination. If it is, then you've broadened the definition of indoctrination to be equivalent to thought, which is a useless overgeneralization. And to be clear, you can be religious and not be indoctrinated.
• c0pium 3y ago
  Only after examining, and attempting to falsify, their hypothesis.