one reason universal public education is bad is that it leads to doctrinal monoculture, over time resulting in a population that has no natural memetic resistance to Certain Infohazards and no native response to certain social threats
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because correctness of an idea is a function of context
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Replying to @eigenrobot @toad_spotted
In some subjects perhaps but even that's a stretch at the k-12 level. Religious groups always use this bs to try and end run around teaching evolution in biology. National standards are a net positive imo.
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A subset of young earth creationists is good actually
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Why? It's not true and teaching people to believe preposterous things just sets them up to believe other preposterous things. Which as we've seen with mask use has led to deadly consequences.
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What I saw happening with mask use was a monoculture at out major health orgs making terrible decisions leading to people not bothering to mask up until it was far too late Remember MASKS DONT WORK from every official? I got my respirator in Jan and have receipts if you like
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Yep, that was the problem at first. The issue now, at least in the US is that we have a president who gives the wrong message and reps from the wrong side of history believing too much preposterous bs. And too many people are listening to them.
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Seems to me this implies that people believing preposterous things has nothing to do with their subsequent behavior
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How so? People who believe republican q-anon stuff are the one's who are refusing to wear masks. People who understand how they work are more likely to use them.
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That's interesting because when crazy channers and anonymous shitposters were buying masks in January all of these Well Educated people were calling them Racists for doing so 





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Shall I pull up the surgeon generals tweet I think I shall
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