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I think there are many layers between the people who read Brian Greene's books and watched the reproducibility crisis unfold, and the public that has "lost fait
by ertian 3y ago
I think there are many layers between the people who read Brian Greene's books and watched the reproducibility crisis unfold, and the public that has "lost faith in science". When I hear the latter, I think of vaccine skepticism and flat earth theories, not students who decided to switch to engineering. I think clickbait headlines and internet bubbles are, relatively speaking, a much bigger problem than string theory and bad statistics.
- tunesmith 3y agoOff-topic, but I think we should stop calling them bubbles as they are getting larger and longer-lasting. It's more like they are domes, which don't pop easily. You've got people lying to poll-takers, rage-bait videos of people pretending to believe things they don't, trolling as a lifestyle, shared culture based off of weird beliefs... people can get away with avoiding truth and reality for longer than they used to. They can have happy lives doing it. It's a huge societal shift that I don't think has been properly analyzed yet.
- mistermann 3y ago> When I hear the latter, I think of vaccine skepticism and flat earth theories, not students who decided to switch to engineering. Do you believe this to be a high quality style of thinking, if you consider it from a disconnected, disinterested 3rd person perspective?