Hard_Rom
Northumbrian Skald
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Google will lead you to articles and videos that will show categorically that the Earth is hollow. And the inside is populated by Nazi super-saurian.
The internet has done wonders for bringing knowledge of somewhat obscure or specialized science to the masses. But it has also allowed bloggers, conspiracy theorists and just plain whackos to proliferate. Vested interest can also put out all sorts of nonsense that appears to substantiate their profit driven motives and ideas.
You have to apply critical thinking to most of what the WWW supplies. Being an airhead just looking to absorb all sorts of nonsense is just plain stupid. If we all did that then smoking and cancer would be unrelated, fossil fuel burning and climate change would have nothing to do with one another, that there is a racial hierarchy, that the Holocaust did not happen, that the Earth is flat or only 7000 years old.
Think! And think critically!
The internet has done wonders for bringing knowledge of somewhat obscure or specialized science to the masses. But it has also allowed bloggers, conspiracy theorists and just plain whackos to proliferate. Vested interest can also put out all sorts of nonsense that appears to substantiate their profit driven motives and ideas.
You have to apply critical thinking to most of what the WWW supplies. Being an airhead just looking to absorb all sorts of nonsense is just plain stupid. If we all did that then smoking and cancer would be unrelated, fossil fuel burning and climate change would have nothing to do with one another, that there is a racial hierarchy, that the Holocaust did not happen, that the Earth is flat or only 7000 years old.
Think! And think critically!
