🧪 #resistRFK Is that true? Science education pedagogy adopted the dogma that kids will understand science if they're taught to become "their own scientists". They're taught to do their own research and come to their own conclusions. This is what got us here, what pseudoscience takes advantage of.
That is more of an issue with digimedia promoting the false notion that simply “looking stuff up” on any unrefereed site is equivalent to a legitimate form of actual research.
A flea knows more than JFK JR. A brain worm knows more than JFK JR. An intestinal parasite knows more than JFK JR. *I* know more than JFK JR.!
Yes, do your own research and come to conclusions... THEN, in regular scientific method fashion, those conclusions will be TESTED by other scientists for validity, either finding evidence to support or evidence antithetical to the original conclusion. And then, that will happen over and over.
Except of course, that it's more complicated than that. Not everyone can play. Everyone doesn't get a vote. A major right wing pseudoscience talking point is that science must be done by public debate and free speech. This appeals to political grievances. Experts, what they call elites, do the work.
If that 12 year old understands that heroin is BAD for you and shooting heroin for 14 years is BAD, then they already know more science than rfkjr.
R.F.K. Jr