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I hate anyone with a passion when they say that they "did their research" as it's always "I read a Facebook page"
People have no idea what the word research implies, or what goes into actuall real research
Schools should really put much more focus on explaining what science is and what it does
And who has time to get a PhD in climate science, geology, virology, astronomy, physics, biology, history, chemistry etc.
I am lazy, an adopt Bertrad Russell's sceptisim framework,
If the excerpts broadly disagree, remain sceptical
If the experts broardy agree and you're not an expert, you're a fool to disagree.
Hard agree. The US is currently speed running to third world status and its entirely because of education, and i assume its happening elsewhere based on the rise of conmen in leadership. Anyone who thinks for themself who has ever had a conversation with anyone MAGA on why they believe what they believe, will know that it was just because they were told to believe it. They do not have any sort of internal reasoning, they look to someone that fits their world view of what a leader looks like and then they believe every word that they say. It is the same way most people relate to religion, do not think about it, just have faith.
So when you mix together a wildly de-funded and heavily politicized education system that turns out followers who outsource reasoning to authority figures, with modern American solipsistic culture that allows the worst human beings alive to be seen as role models, then it was always just a matter of time before conmen took the reigns of the country. Anyone who is ever trying to argue their point with reasoning and facts will appear on the defense to any conman that is just riffing innacuracies, and the uneducated masses will see the conman as in control, which will then make them trust that person, it doesn't go any deeper than that.
Humans are fucking stupid.
Quality insight, I don't doubt it, I just know when most people said they were 'doing their own research' they weren't looking at a biology book to find out what RNA was vs. DNA, or mRNA vs RNA, or how protein vaccines vs. mRNA vaccines worked. It's just infuriating to me.
I long for the time when people said "I read a Facebook page"
Generally my circle watches 12 45-second videos on TikTok which gave them bias from assuming seeing it more places made it more right. They don't even have to go to the comments to get bamboozled.
It was killing me with the pandemic. ''I'm not sure about mRNA vaccines, I'm doing my own research'' homie, researching a vaccine means you are running a immunology lab. You're not researching, you're listening to a nut trying to sell you an unregulated vitamin in place of real medicine.
I did my own "looking into something and learning about it", and you know what? I came to the conclusion that a lot of those people are pretty smart and know what they're doing.
Research can mean something that's a synonym to what I said in quotes above since it doesn't specifically mean experimental research, but that still requires looking at a variety of credible sources and knowing how to interpret what they're saying.
Probably not what you're going to find on tiktok.
Here in the UK properly researching topics was something we did in multiple classes in secondary/high school. Not just googling shit for an essay but checking our sources as well as source authors and dates.
This was true in the US during the 90s at least. But also some high school graduates can't read out loud.