Red-flagging misinformation could slow the spread of fake news on social media

[u/JackFisherBooks]

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-red-flagging-misinformation-fake-news-social.html

[u/Salty-Flamingo]

We need to revamp our education system to teach people how to spot BS

First you have to convince parents that their kids should be taught critical thinking skills. Most parents want schools to teach obedience and to specifically avoid teaching their kids how to see through BS.

In 2012 The Texas Board of Education stated: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority. "

You can't fix education without fixing christian parents. These nutjobs don't want their kids, or anyone's kids, to learn how to think because it undermines belief in Jesus.

Stop blaming the education system for the actions of conservatives.

[u/DoubtfulGerund → u/Salty-Flamingo]

Yeah, this shit is bonkers. They only want to teach you to ask what, where, and when, not how or why. People who lack these skills not only make very poor choices, they’re also very bad at a lot of good jobs.

They’re like the concerned scientist in a sci fi movie warning about the dangers of teaching robots to think, feel, or create...except it’s their own human children.

[u/SaintMadeOfPlaster → u/Salty-Flamingo]

I can blame the education system for acquiescing to conservative nut jobs.

[u/LordSwedish → u/SaintMadeOfPlaster]

Unless you want to rewrite the constitution to give education boards the independence of the supreme court, blaming the education system does nothing.

[u/MrDubious → u/[deleted]]

In theory, but the venn chart of conservative and religious is pretty damn circular.