People Are Ruining Science

1. People Are Ruining Science When I was a kid, science class was one of my favorites. Specifically, I can point to sixth grade as the time when I was having the most fun. First off, my teacher acted like I was the most impressive student she had ever taught. Even if it was a lie, it made me feel empowered. The second thing was that she was young and knew how to use media to help us learn. Maybe she was just being lazy, but I look back at the videos she showed us as the foundation for my scientific learning. It was not just any video. These were the episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy, a legend to kids everywhere and the guy who put edutainment on the map. These days, you can still watch it on YouTube and virtually have your own online tutor for science. Now, I am an adult and Bill Nye has grown with me. He knows that his audience is my age, so he has elevated his content to be catered to my generation still. He had another show, but he also makes appearances everywhere talking bluntly about the realities of climate change. One such appearance that I will never forget was when he was on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. On that show, they talked about the “debate” about climate change, where the overwhelming consensus is that climate change exists. Yet, we still have to argue about it because of the small group of convincing idiots that are out there setting science back.

2. Another way that science is held back is through religion. The idea of evolution is something that nobody should debate anymore, but the narrative of Christianity conflicts with the facts of science, so there is a Christian push to eliminate evolution in schools and promote creationism, which is based in no fact. Evolution has been proved by people way smarter than all of them, but they think that they are the smart ones. May I suggest an online tutor for science? Maybe that could help all of the people that do not believe what Charles Darwin found out decades ago. The final group of scientific dummies that I want to talk about are the flat earthers. These are the people that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, believe that the planet is not spherical, instead being flat like a plate. It is utter stupidity, but people still put it out there into the world year after year like they have found something new. This is a belief that we disproved centuries before Jesus and we are still arguing about it. That is just a waste. One of the people that came under fire for this idea was Kyrie Irving, a talented basketball player who clearly did not go to Duke to go to class. He put the idea out and got roasted for it, as well he should. When he retracted it, it was not because he realized he was wrong, but because he regretted using his platform to highlight it. Instead of believing in all these dumb ideas, trust in science. Source : https://onlinetutorforscience.blogspot.com/2019/10/people-are- ruining-science.html