[doc30]

This is the silliest analysis by an academic that I've read in some time. First, to the extent that students can't differentiate between good and bad information, it is the fault of the school system that trained them (or failed to).

No. Looking stuff up on the net can give very misleading results. High school students have not yet formed that ability to readily distinguish the wheat from the chaff on the internet. The internet has given every crackpot, malcontent with an agenda, quack salesmen with whacked products and the just plain delusional easy dissimilation of their ideas. I've even seen it by people here on FR. Someone was advocating coffee enemas as a health treatment. Other people here claim the sun orbits the earth and they all have internet research to back them up.

[Right Wing Assault]

Looking stuff up on the net can give very misleading results.

Looking up stuff in books can give very misleading results, too. Asking people questions can give very misleading results, too. Reading Free Republic can give very misleading results, too.

[jimmyray]

Other people here claim the sun orbits the earth and they all have internet research to back them up.

OK, so why do newspapers and daily local news list the sunrise and sunset times, if the sun does not orbit the earth? Duh!