The 5g conspiracy craziness are but the latest example showing that a civilization's technological progress is hard-limited at any given time by the quality of education a median member of the society has received.
@rysiek
>median
I see what you did here!
@rysiek
So how do we educate 51% of the society?
@wolf480pl well. We should educate them well.
The problem is that education needs to work on different levels. There's baseline education provided by schools, and there's education on particular topics. The former is pretty good, the latter has been abandoned completely, at least in UK and Poland. There were no public campaigns in either country on any of the controversial topics for decades. This battle was lost by walkover.
To speak of a concrete example: in Poland I found myself in a company of doctors who were complaining about the anti-vaxx movement. I asked them when there was the last public campaign on vaccinations - you know, like we saw in 50's with posters, TV programs, articles etc.
The answer was silence.
And there's a dozen of institutions that have funds just for that: ministry of health, public insurer, all kind of medical associations etc.
@wolf480pl @kravietz@social.privacytools.io what one is exposed to through a curriculum, and what one actually learns, are two different things.
@kravietz
Wait, but every child learns in primary school biology class what vaccines are and how they work...
@rysiek