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I have a dear long term friend who says she does not trust science. As part of a long discussion I pointed to her mobile phone and said "see, there is the evidence ...you know science works." "But that's technology" she replied.
I realised that someone who was not aware that technology is applied science was a hopeless case and I gave up.
This same friend says she is careful about what she believes and checks things out by doing "research" on the internet!
I think that the automatic confirmation bias performed by some news feeds (ie you show interest, then what you are fed is filtered to suit your interest) is a real worry when so many of us are too poorly educated to even understand what a balanced view is.
Ian
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