What with the internet and the ability to look things up whenever you want doubt is becoming more rare. People are more certain about things but doubt is of course not completely gone. It’s still around and this discusses this and its affects on society. It can be hard to calculate this but it is still a part of the human psyche.
Key Takeaways:
- People today often thing that they are always right, and that anyone who doesn’t agree is wrong.
- Some scientific facts are now so well documented that they approach the status of “truth”.
- Many people don’t realize that for truth to exist, there needs to be doubt.
“Science has always been the best antidote against this bias, because while political truths are highly subjective and subject to the whims of the majority, most scientific truths are starkly objective.”
Read the full article here: The primacy of doubt in an age of illusory certainty
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