Teach the controversy, uh-huh

[mahnmut]

People's willful attempts to keep themselves ignorant has never stopped boggling me.

Automatically filling the blank spots that still remain here and there in our knowledge about many things - with a deity of some sorts - reminds me of the fairy tales we often tell our very young kids whenever they ask "daddy, where did I come from?" Then we start talking about bees and birds and everything is all right. Funny, many people choose to remain in eternal childhood forever. It would've remained just funny-full-stop, unless entire groups of those eventually started pushing their ignorant agenda onto the rest of society and turn this into a political issue, now that's where things turn ugly.

Teach the controversy is a nice way to move the goalposts of free speech into a slippery area. By the same logic, why not teach Astrology in class? Many people trust it, don't they?

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Call out bullshit for what it is - bullshit. Use scientific arguments to demonstrate how it stinks. Then improve education. And I do mean scientific, not pseudo-scientific education.

Still, if someone so much insists that their kids learn some pseudo-science, make an optional school subject about it. Astrology is nice and interesting but it shouldn't be presented as if it's 'science'.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Tough to do but not impossible.