You are simply telling kids that the current 'beliefs' of a bunch of scientist are fact. Just because you spent 10 years in college does not make your personal belief any more right that any one else.
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See, kids, this is where deconstructionism goes bad. People interpret it to mean, "LOL, the half-baked ignorant notion of any slack-jawed yokel is of equal merit to the detailed theory of intelligent, well-informed experts who have dedicated their life to a field!"
Tommy (Chris Farley): Did you hear I finally graduated?
So you're saying that Unky Clem, the turnip truck driver with a 2nd grade education, has an equally valid opinion on astrophysics and microbiology as, say, an astronomer and a microbiologist?
Where that "personal belief" has to do with one's professional understanding of facts and their proper interpretation, yes, it does make it much more "right." Education, training, and experience constitute a foundation for having such "beliefs"; ignorance, avoidance, and stubbornness do not.
Hey "the girl with shit on the face",
ARRRRRRG! I am sick of this particular brand of idiocy.
actually yes, I will believe the opinions of those who have spent ten years studying science over random people who haven't. Because you know, maybe the people who have spent ten years studying this stuff know what the fuck they are talking about?
Sounds like my ex. "You can't just say one thing is right and another thing is wrong. You don't know ."
Never could get over the idiocy. Is ice cream cold? Are you human? Is pain unpleasant? Do objects fall if released midair? well hao du yu no hur durr
> Just because you spent 10 years in college does not make your personal belief any more right that any one else.
It means you know more than the average person about that thing you spent ten years studying. No more (stupid know-it-all doctors who think they know more about computers than I do) and no less (stupid preachers who think they know more about physics than Stephen Hawking).
“You are simply telling kids that the current 'beliefs' of a bunch of scientist are fact.”
" Just because you spent 10 years in college does not make your personal belief any more right that any one else.”
Confused?
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