However, if you started by explaining to the subjects how fake experts can be used to falsely challenge the scientific consensus, the polarizing effect of this misinformation was completely neutralized. This is exactly why we choose to promote science partly by exposing pseudoscience, and not just the false information of bad science but the deceptive (sometimes self-deceptive) tactics that pseudoscientists use. It’s not enough to just teach people science, you have to teach them how science works and how to think in a valid way. This book is meant to be one giant inoculation against bad
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