During the pandemic, a third of people in the UK reported that their trust in science had increased, we recently discovered. But 7% said that it had decreased. Why is there such variety of responses?
  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I don’t want to change anyone’s mind anymore. I’m so tired of trying. I just want them to STFU and believe their wacko shit in private like the good old days.

    • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      10 months ago

      Ain’t that the truth. Social media is one of the worst things for humanity, instead of every “village idiot” being shunned as they deserve, now they can all find each other online and circlejerk about how they know “the real truth” and everyone else is just “blind to reality” as if they knew any better.

      The worst thing about stupid people is that they’re to stupid to know they’re stupid. Anyone with a shred of intelligence knows there’s a ton of things they don’t understand and leave it to people that actually put in the time and effort to become knowledgeable about their particular field of knowledge.

      But no the dumb fucks of the world think a google search and reading a few blog posts, a few facebook posts, and a few youtube videos is equivalent to being able to write and understand a scientific paper.

    • Elise@beehaw.org
      1·
      10 months ago

      Just keep asking questions. The challenge is to keep up for as long as possible.

        • Elise@beehaw.org
          2·
          10 months ago

          Honestly give the Socratic method a try. You can’t go wrong there. It’s challenging and you’ll improve a skill at the least. You might shed some light on a topic for them or yourself.

          Coming up with good questions is hard (and let’s be honest, staying calm) but the real difficulty lies in keeping up and genuinely understanding what is being meant.

          At some point I just genuinely don’t understand any more. It’s something the other person will notice and take with them. If anything you’ve shown them how to be critical.

  • sqgl@beehaw.org
    3·
    10 months ago

    I often ask them to tell me what they think “the scientific method” is.

    They tend to waffle about big pharma and Hiroshima so I give them a four minute ELI5 animation from YouTube to watch. They never do watch it though.

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Nothing involving the thoughts and ideas of millions of people is simple.

      Hell. Very little involving the thoughts and ideas of a individual person is simple.