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.
Recently Nature published an angry rant against pseudo-science here https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01266-z which is 100% correct in the diagnosis. But then they're calling for - wait for it - scientists to come up with "shareable content" to combat the pseudo-science!
So on one side you've got professional scammers, PR experts who don't care about any credibility, and you want to put a bunch of scientists with "shareable content" against it...
