The less you know the easier you are to fool. No, HS biology won’t be enough to understand a complex research paper. But it will be enough to know the guy talking about using light or bleach to kill covid is a fucking idiot.
Come to think of it… Actually I took HS bio classes and never again after but I gained enough understanding from reading trustworthy sources to be able to read quite a few covid paper’s abstracts and understand (they weren’t that difficult honestly) and stay better informed than most folks.
I think the real key is learning how to learn. How to Pick up things here and there. How to evaluate sources.
The people who are anti-vax (at least online) are to a person ignorant about so much-- science, virology, immunology, statistics, logic, etc. You can’t even discuss the topic without them until they go to school and learn a boatload of stuff.
But then Dunning Kruger comes into it. How many people cling to the “there are only two genders because I learned that in basic biology” without understanding that more advanced biology shows that it is more complicated than that.
Not saying there shouldn’t be math and science in school, I think there should be for sure, just pointing out the other side of teaching just a basic level of something.
The less you know the easier you are to fool. No, HS biology won’t be enough to understand a complex research paper. But it will be enough to know the guy talking about using light or bleach to kill covid is a fucking idiot.
Come to think of it… Actually I took HS bio classes and never again after but I gained enough understanding from reading trustworthy sources to be able to read quite a few covid paper’s abstracts and understand (they weren’t that difficult honestly) and stay better informed than most folks.
I think the real key is learning how to learn. How to Pick up things here and there. How to evaluate sources.
The people who are anti-vax (at least online) are to a person ignorant about so much-- science, virology, immunology, statistics, logic, etc. You can’t even discuss the topic without them until they go to school and learn a boatload of stuff.
But then Dunning Kruger comes into it. How many people cling to the “there are only two genders because I learned that in basic biology” without understanding that more advanced biology shows that it is more complicated than that.
Not saying there shouldn’t be math and science in school, I think there should be for sure, just pointing out the other side of teaching just a basic level of something.