So we'll do work, uh, to forward science education. Uh, the whole purpose of our charity is to promote science to challenge pseudoscience. So I'm Michael Marshall and I'm the project director of the good thinking society, which is a charity based in the UK. I’m going to let my guest introduce himself in a moment, because he does a better job than I could. My chemistry class tried to have demonstrations to ground all the words in the real world.This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on March 27, 2020. My high school biology was barely more than rote memorization for every single class. The best classes provided ways to do experiments and verify things, even to screw up experiments and have to figure out what went wrong. That made it no more believable or comprehensible than anything else. Maybe what we need is a popular site that demonstrates numerous ways that amateurs could verify various aspects of what is considered true by science, along with gotchas to watch for and ways to verify that those really are gotchas.Ī lot of people were only taught "this is how things are" in science class. There's so much distrust being spread, some by genuine disbelievers, some by those seeking power from disbelief. Unfortunately, from the few videos I've seen, they aren't careful or any good at using science to examine the world. In a slight defense of the Flat Earthers, if they are at least trying to verify things themselves, I respect that portion of their otherwise stupid behavior.
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