PredFan
Diamond Member
Rather that think, many people would rather simply link to “experts” or “follow the science”.
I blame our education system and the teachers and professors for doing a shitty job often intentionally. Young people are no longer taught to think.
If you thought about it at all, you’d realize that there are some significant problems with this.
First of all, science and scientists are fallible, they are human too. If you know history, you will know that sciencehas been wrongmore often than right. Scientists USED to believe that they learned just as much from being wrong as they did from being right.
Another problem is that science is for sale. Give a scientist a job and pay him well and he’ll give you science to say whatever you want. Did you know that the tobacco companies had teams of scientists on their side years ago who would claim that there was no link to health problems from smoking.
Another problem with trusting the science and scientists is that science has been politicized. It’s easy to do. Our institutions of “learning” are run by the left and if you want to keep a job and want to be taken seriously, you toe the line.
The biggest danger in letting someone else think for you is that you can easily be duped. Just trot out a well paid and politically connected “expert” and they can get you to believe anything they want you to.
that’s exactly the goal of education and politics today. Keeping people from thinking for themselves.
I blame our education system and the teachers and professors for doing a shitty job often intentionally. Young people are no longer taught to think.
If you thought about it at all, you’d realize that there are some significant problems with this.
First of all, science and scientists are fallible, they are human too. If you know history, you will know that sciencehas been wrongmore often than right. Scientists USED to believe that they learned just as much from being wrong as they did from being right.
Another problem is that science is for sale. Give a scientist a job and pay him well and he’ll give you science to say whatever you want. Did you know that the tobacco companies had teams of scientists on their side years ago who would claim that there was no link to health problems from smoking.
Another problem with trusting the science and scientists is that science has been politicized. It’s easy to do. Our institutions of “learning” are run by the left and if you want to keep a job and want to be taken seriously, you toe the line.
The biggest danger in letting someone else think for you is that you can easily be duped. Just trot out a well paid and politically connected “expert” and they can get you to believe anything they want you to.
that’s exactly the goal of education and politics today. Keeping people from thinking for themselves.