This is very big. The K-12 socialist propaganda machine must be dismantled. Our daughters are in their 20’s and although we deprogrammed (mostly successfully) them and taught them critical thinking, the disinformation they were exposed to in the public schools is real. The public school teachers are teaching in lock step the socialist curricula that they receive from the far left Ivies.
I can attest first hand that their generation has largely bought the lies being disseminated by the K-12 public school disinformation factories.
Conformity is expected. For example if you know that abortion takes a life and dare to make an argument against it, your peers will ostracize you and ridicule you. This is real and if it is not fixed, we will lose the next several generations who will end up being indoctrinated into becoming socialist materialist atheists.
The peer cohorts of our daughters probably are in 90% agreement with the socialist doctrines they were taught - the evil white man, the evils of America, evolution and global warming as proven truth instead of theory, etc.
A great, but depressing, post. Too sadly true. That’s why control of education was high on Alinsky’s plan.
Let’s get our terms straight, here.
A scientific theory is a conceptual framework that not only describes and unifies the existing body of knowledge, but provides a basis on which to formulate new, testable hypotheses. Through an iterative process, theories are refined and become more accurate reflections of the underlying reality. Thus, the theory of evolution is a robust conceptual framework for understanding the interrelationships between living organisms and is an integral component of any biological study.
A hypothesis is a logical supposition of a potential consequence of the application of known facts. A good hypothesis is testable; a well-designed experiment will differentiate between the hypothesis and the null hypothesis—in other words, it predicts the result if the hypothesis is true vs. if it is not true. Anthropogenic “global warming” is a hypothesis because it took a single physical fact (that carbon dioxide has a very wide fluorescence band in the infrared portion of the spectrum) and hypothesized that this property controls the amount of solar energy retained at the surface of the earth. This hypothesis was weak at the outset because it did not account for all of the known facts about fluorescence, heat transfer, the role of carbon in the biosphere, etc., and it has almost no predictive value that would enable researchers to actually test it. It is useful from a certain political point of view (because it can be used to limit freedom) but is not a good scientific hypothesis.
Anyway, teaching critical thought is a vital component of education that the schools have abdicated utterly.