I'm actually MUCH more concerned with the damage tech and social media in particular is doing to our democracy. That, combined with a rapid decline in citizens' trust in science and their ability to reason and filter out false info, is a much bigger issue than shitty OSes IMO.
Stated alternately, if you want to blame someone for not believing in "science", you first have to explain how that person was supposed to tell the difference between real science and fake science. How is the average citizen going to do that?
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Yep. As I said, it's an education problem, not the fault of the scientific community. I donate to Union of Concerned Scientists and National Center for Science Education because I think better science education is a big part of the solution. Dumping on science doesn't help.
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Dumping on _science_ doesn't help, but dumping on the scientific community is very warranted. No amount of educating citizens is going to let the average person read a longitudinal study on cholesterol and know that it's bullshit.
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Still, I don't blame the scientific community for this state of affairs. I blame marketing firms, our faltering underfunded education system, and more recently soc media for amplifying BS and blurring the line between it and fact.