It occurred to me when I was reading XKCD a moment ago that given that there exists a strain of suspicion of anything ‘science’ among a certain crowd in this country (fundamentalists, creationists, etc), and a kind of mystique among another crowd (of the “It was in a study so it must be true” variety) that it might be helpful, given that by doing science people are more or less systematizing thinking critically and checking things to be as certain as they can about an idea, to kind of pay attention to and possibly ‘play taboo’ to an extent when that something-is-a-special-kind-of-a-thing-because-it-is-a-science-thing attitude comes up.
A good example being the xkcd comic I got it from:
Tabooing Science + an xkcd comic about the eclipse—“Honestly, it’s not that scientific.”
It occurred to me when I was reading XKCD a moment ago that given that there exists a strain of suspicion of anything ‘science’ among a certain crowd in this country (fundamentalists, creationists, etc), and a kind of mystique among another crowd (of the “It was in a study so it must be true” variety) that it might be helpful, given that by doing science people are more or less systematizing thinking critically and checking things to be as certain as they can about an idea, to kind of pay attention to and possibly ‘play taboo’ to an extent when that something-is-a-special-kind-of-a-thing-because-it-is-a-science-thing attitude comes up.
A good example being the xkcd comic I got it from: