I say, Don’t trust verify.
Science has objectively verifiable data. When people laugh and mock at “trust the science” it is meaningless. Data is data is data. Interpreters can be wrong or misle...
That's the point. Textbooks act as the "interpreters" you mention. They don't just provide data.
Look at the citations in a modern, $150 university textbook. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Article, another Textbook, citation-of-a-citation. It's credibility-laundering.
There's the scientific method, which few mock, and there's explicit data which Covid exposed what "trusting without verifying" leads to:
Take California in this trickle-down credibility ponzi.
Fauci says "pick a mask, any mask"
CDC publishes an official statement "any mask will work, but N95 is best"
-- The first bad citation: CDC uses a 2013 Influenza study on mask efficacy that concludes "cloth masks aren't great" and interprets the study just-for-you
Newsom sees the CDC citation and cites it for his public health emergency shutdown of public gatherings and mask-mandate
A whole state halts to a stop because people cited a citation of an irrelevant study used to back someone's ego.
The CDC was guilty of bad study citation countless times during the Covid19 crisis, and the CDC is what will get cited in textbooks.
That's the problem.
Look at the citations in a modern, $150 university textbook. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Article, another Textbook, citation-of-a-citation. It's credibility-laundering.
There's the scientific method, which few mock, and there's explicit data which Covid exposed what "trusting without verifying" leads to:
Take California in this trickle-down credibility ponzi.
Fauci says "pick a mask, any mask"
CDC publishes an official statement "any mask will work, but N95 is best"
-- The first bad citation: CDC uses a 2013 Influenza study on mask efficacy that concludes "cloth masks aren't great" and interprets the study just-for-you
Newsom sees the CDC citation and cites it for his public health emergency shutdown of public gatherings and mask-mandate
A whole state halts to a stop because people cited a citation of an irrelevant study used to back someone's ego.
The CDC was guilty of bad study citation countless times during the Covid19 crisis, and the CDC is what will get cited in textbooks.
That's the problem.
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