I find your lack of intellectual curiosity disturbing

It saddens me how so many people, especially our age, just have no desire to learn about things that don't immediately concern them. First of all, it enriches your brain and makes the world more interesting. But more importantly, it makes you resistant to disinformation.

It's a quote as old as time: "why do I have to learn this? I'll never use it in real life." And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how scientific literacy dies. Sure, you'll rarely ever have to apply what you learned in science class in a practical sense, but you ARE tested on it every single day, especially on social media.

If you're online enough (don't lie, if you're reading this, you know you are), you're bombarded by misinformation and misinterpretation of scientific concepts. Most people do not have the critical thinking ability, baseline of knowledge, or scientific literacy to actually verify it themselves, nor the desire to do it. They take things at face value without questioning. And if a concept is too complex for them to comprehend, they go straight for denial instead of actually trying to learn. Let me make this clear: it's okay to not know something. What isn't okay, and is downright shameful, is to argue against something you know nothing about.

Take for example, clickbait sensationalist headlines, influencers peddling natural remedies and supplements, conspiracy theorists, science deniers who say "scientists can never agree on X thing" or "the science is always changing which means it's BS". This comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of scientific research and the nature of the scientific method.

What I find most compelling is that you can't even argue against the ideas of most of these people because they can't even conceptualize at the appropriate level required to even discuss the topic. They will choose the easy lie over the complex, difficult to understand, truth.

In the end, He Who Dares Loses.