Check out this article about the vaccination issue for a very heartening turn of events! It's one of several where we see kids actually being smarter than their parents. A couple of these articles have appeared recently about teenagers getting vaccinated in defiance of their "anti-vaxxer" parents. The kids, it seems, are able to understand such things as logic and evidence-based reasoning. That, of course, is unlike their parents who keep clinging to completely discredited myths and conspiracy theories about "Big Pharma" and "Big government" and big this and big that knowingly poisoning people with MMR vaccine for whatever nefarious reason that make sense only to the minds of conspiracy theorists. In the meantime, of course, we have had measles epidemics breaking out in...wait for it!!...population clusters where parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids. Quite a coincidence, isn't it?
But it is great hearing that young people are capable of understanding science and are willing to reject the dangerous conspiracy fantasies of their misguided parents. This is the power of education at work.
I just hope that when I am teaching my students about the myths and logical fallacies of all the major conspiracy theories, I can have this sort of impact on them as well.
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Yes you can try to keep brainwashing kids with big pharma propaganda but it will not work. I don’t believe these MSM stories about these kids. Total lies! Pharma kills!!!
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ReplyDeleteI can assure you that my students, and most sensible young people who are capable of understanding the evidence-based scientific method, will most certainly understand why vaccines are crucial for their own safety and public safety. Moreover, just because you would prefer something not to be true does not prove that it is a part of some mainstream media cabal’s conspiracy.
It’s very exciting to hear young people still have some sense. And they’re smart enough to reject the foolish antivax stupidity of some adults. Good for them!
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