Re:Trust: The Need for Public Understanding of How Science W...
by WildParser on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:17AM
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I'm not very optimistic about avoiding a "Dark Age".
Rational thinking and the idea to look at data seems to be completely foreign to most people I know. Higher educated people seem to absorb and repeat dogmas and propaganda unfiltered even faster.
Some patterns I have come across:
Alpha-Rational:
Claiming that ideas that come from authority (dogma) or self (narcissism) are rational - rejecting to look at any data.
Anti-Rational: Reject the idea to look at data "life is uncertain", "data is garbage", "it's immoral to look at data" - although there is a lot of good data and drawing conclusions is not even difficult.
Malicious rational: Know your science and cherry-pick data for profit to support the highest bidder.
Rational thinking and the idea to look at data seems to be completely foreign to most people I know. Higher educated people seem to absorb and repeat dogmas and propaganda unfiltered even faster.
Some patterns I have come across:
Alpha-Rational: Claiming that ideas that come from authority (dogma) or self (narcissism) are rational - rejecting to look at any data.
Anti-Rational: Reject the idea to look at data "life is uncertain", "data is garbage", "it's immoral to look at data" - although there is a lot of good data and drawing conclusions is not even difficult.
Malicious rational: Know your science and cherry-pick data for profit to support the highest bidder.