Fact vs. fake - why don’t we trust science any more? | DW Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frCIYEyURV0
Decent documentary. As expected, profit is the ruiner of all.
Yet people seem too trusting, and maybe even complimentary about for-profit corporations!!!
I guess people, generally speaking, distrust undeclared or hidden financial motives.
But most importantly, I think it's all about the increasingly rampant ignorance of the general public! Ironically, when the population did not have easy-access to all kinds of knowledge, they somehow seemed smarter!!
Maybe a sign of a failing education system?
Could be because all the village idiots have megaphones now (thanks to social media).
Maybe even because there is no repercussion from society for being ignorant!
It's a complex issue.
@Firaas An extremely archaic education system is definitely part of it. Producing decent doctors and scientists is important, but learning how to live and what is worth living for should be central: more philosophy. Now we're predominantly manufacturing cogs for the machine.
Then there's this: mastery based learning > test scores:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTRxRO5SRA
"Producing"... how exactly?
And that does not address the sad reality that the "modern world" no longer differentiates between, or even cares about, fakes and facts
@stardust