Dennis Stevens
Laura HelmuthThe anti-reality industry pushes lies about abortion, climate, COVID, gender-affirming care, race, sex, evolution, education & more, and it's all connected https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-must-face-down-the-expanding-anti-reality-industry/ @SeattleBryn traces the intersectional awfulness on Scientific American
mickymorse@laurahelmuth @SeattleBryn The anti-reality industry is also the gop. They refuse to realize they support a criminal and a traitor.
DannyboyguymanDanny the Weary (@[email protected])
@[email protected] I have argued for some time there is no good faith intent in the reactionary right. The entire conservative policy agenda is incoherent antisocial nonsense and all their rationalizations and rhetoric offered in support or defense of it is necessarily disinformation. They have systematically disinformed their supporters for generations. Josh is correct that this effect was always present and the crisis today is due to reactionary centrists who have granted them equal time/standing
Alexander KarnThree interlinking crises:
Environmental
Political
Epistemological
No hope for 1 and 2 without more traction on 3.
Bryn NelsonOne key solution would be teaching kids more science and media literacy as part of a critical thinking toolkit. Finland, for example, is often cited as a success story here. Not a panacea, of course, but those skills can definitely help counter disinformation, whether it’s environmental or political.
nshrubs@SeattleBryn @xankarn @laurahelmuth We'd love to. Unfortunately we also have these hideous state & federally mandated tests from 3rd grade on that carry consequences for districts/schools/teachers/kids, thus much of our focus ends up on ensuring content coverage in reading & math for testing, plus we lose several weeks of instruction to test prep & testing.
@Nshrubs @laurahelmuth @xankarn
Yeah, unfortunately it would require some significant restructuring of educational priorities. Finland at least shows it’s possible but I totally understand that the reality here is far different.
Kevin Karhan 
@laurahelmuth @SeattleBryn nodds in agreement
"#FloodTheZoneWithShit!" is part of the whole #Project2025 plan...
The Air WhispererFor the last three years, I've been facing down the unreality that holds Aviation back
- and offers spurious credibility to all sorts of 'unreality merchants' in other fields.
A 2020 article from Scientific American has been greatly helpful to the project; would you like to run a follow-up piece...? Or even use the topic to goad Aerodynamics into becoming a Scientific discipline...?
When that happened to Cosmology, great things followed...
