Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne...
by paul7986 on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:56PM
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Exactly it's not just right yet ..time will make it right.
If you believe everything you are hearing as fact one day the facts change/the science which it does then cool.. I'm on the fence waiting with a mask on as needed to hear the real science and facts as of now they change quickly so and again I'm waiting for it all to work itself out. Not anti vaxxer or anti science here just a realist
Science is a verb, not a noun.
It's easy to forget that when it's taught as a series of facts, pre-discovered long ago. Most students are never faced with the unknown edge of science (until grad school).
Because fundamentally, usefully, that's what science really is -- a method for systematically exploring the unknown.
What that actually looks like in practice -- fits and starts, ideas and experiments and retractions, conflicting data resolution, framework guesses and confirmations and rejection -- has largely been forgotten (after ~1990, in the developed media?).
And becoming used to reporting on scientific discoveries is fine... until we're mode switched to reporting on scientific research, and neither media nor public understand the distinction.
Science is always wrong. Until it's not. And that's its strength.