Oh, I've got a good one for folks today.
No politics! No grim climate change disaster!
Just science, and its histories. 🤓
Today, for Rewind Wednesday, we talk updates to theories about our #cosmos, and histories of chemistry that might seem absurd now.
Simply put:
Every era is doing the best it can with the data it has on hand.
That's why it's important to teach #science as a *process*, not an outcome, if we want people to understand grand changes in the data now.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/dark-matter-and-the-latest-science
@MLClark We Oh should start teaching science by 1st grade. Inflexible, lazy minds are the bane of science and progress.
Scientific method and historiography!
The problem arises when we give young students the answer without illustrating how we arrived at it. A good scientific education *and* a good history education involve teaching how we know what we know, and how to assess future claims based on best practices for research.
But... that would create better informed and more civically engaged citizens, and who wants that? 🙃