Moon landing conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers, and climate change deniers. It seems like all sorts of established scientific knowledge is called into question because of bad information on the Internet. Have you noticed that the misinformation seems directly proportional to the amount of people on the Internet? What’s happening that people can’t separate facts from rhetoric? Why is it that people on the Internet deny even the most basic scientific principles? Why is that people on the Internet will believe anything with the word “science” anywhere near it? In order to understand scientific knowledge, one has to have a certain amount of scientific...
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