This pandemic has brought a lot of issues to light, and I can’t stop thinking about the intersection of these four: “bad” science, gatekeeping, citizen journalism, and inadequate education...
Your article is interesting, but unfortunately you fell in the same trap that so many people do, including scientists and journalists. That trap is that you think that everybody has the ability to think the same way you do, perhaps with a little added education.
That is very far from reality. Not everybody can think the same way. The way our brains function depend on many factors that make us all different. The development of our brain depends on heredity, the environment we're brought up into, the experiences we encounter, the education we get, the teachers we have, the food we eat, and many more factors.
Being who we are cannot just be a factor of education and ability to write.
The pandemic has not brought these issues to light. These have been issues since the beginning of mankind. In the past peer-reviewed articles have been wrong, deadly wrong, even fraudulent. Scientific assumptions have been wrong, deadly wrong. The issues are highlighted because we have many more people on earth than we used to have and the extremes always draw the attention.
We, especially as a free society, must accept the fact that everyone thinks differently and must be allowed to think differently.
Your article is interesting, but unfortunately you fell in the same trap that so many people do, including scientists and journalists. That trap is that you think that everybody has the ability to think the same way you do, perhaps with a little added education.
That is very far from reality. Not everybody can think the same way. The way our brains function depend on many factors that make us all different. The development of our brain depends on heredity, the environment we're brought up into, the experiences we encounter, the education we get, the teachers we have, the food we eat, and many more factors.
Being who we are cannot just be a factor of education and ability to write.
The pandemic has not brought these issues to light. These have been issues since the beginning of mankind. In the past peer-reviewed articles have been wrong, deadly wrong, even fraudulent. Scientific assumptions have been wrong, deadly wrong. The issues are highlighted because we have many more people on earth than we used to have and the extremes always draw the attention.
We, especially as a free society, must accept the fact that everyone thinks differently and must be allowed to think differently.