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Philip Newton ([personal profile] pne) wrote in [personal profile] azurelunatic 2012-02-08 07:32 am (UTC)

As long as they also learn how to evaluate new information and determine whether it's closer to the truth or not.

"They laughed at Galileo!" is a favourite phrase of crackpots. Just because it goes against accepted knowledge, or just because it's new information, doesn't mean it's more reliable.

It's often hard to distinguish whether "What they don't want you to know!" is a sign of psychoceramics or conspiracy theory on the one hand or of truth that's uncomfortable for The Powers That Be on the other, and youth will need to learn the tools to make the distinction.

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