Back to the idiocracy uprise. Of course yes, social media has amplified the spread of bullshit as a form of control. Retards are easy to control so they aim to turn people into absolute retards. The so-called anti establisment, lolbertarian or hippie type individuals encounter alternative narratives online that shits on scientific consensus, such as the Moon landing or the shape of the Earth, or new age hippie shit about chakras and other woke bullshit aimed at nature lovers. They exploit the lack of trust spread by pseudoscience and government funded ‘research’ which is literally manipulation, burying the logos and jerking the pathos.
Thre government is also doing this because it wants you completely retarded. Again, retards are easy to control, influence and manipulate. It's in fact better to have morons who believe in aliens and flat earth bullshit than questioning and supporting actual research. This is what universities produces now. Gender studies, social sciences, brainwashed by Marx, Engels, Derrida, DeBeauvoir and Sartre, Debord or Lyotards' narratives, and calling anyone studying Kant, Heidegger or even Nietzsche, Mises or Rand as dangerous nazis. So they get out of overpriced colleges and can't even use a computer that's got no touchscreen.
People-and not just the left and their 255 genders tend to seek out information that confirms their existing beliefs. this ids what Google literally does, it is not bringing results, only showing people what they want to find to their interests. Bubbling is real. In today's polarized media landscape, individuals may be more likely to encounter and believe fringe theories that align with their worldview, like conspiracy theories about the moon landing, existence of space, flat earth, chemtrails, and countless bullshit pyramid alien mysteries BS I mentioned. I'm not blaming this on religion and no one should, nowhere in the Bible the Earth is described as flat or being the centrer of the universe. That's in the Coran and I'm not even sure if it's a religion but a sect.
If we want to leave idiocracy, scientists must work to rebuild trust with the public, especially those who feel disconnected from mainstream science. This involves transparent communication, empathy, and actively addressing concerns. What was brilliant with the recent Climate movie despite a couple of misplaced graphs is how it explains the exact point of science being about questioning and not affirming facts. Nerds should be the school bullies. Teachers have to be more rational and back in the postwar era where there were none of these bullshit.
Education systems should motivate critical thinking. Not learning to repeat the bullshit like a robot. Encouraging skepticism while also teaching how to sort out facts, evidence and sources is how you redpill your kids about the whole bullshit. Don't expect schools to do the fucking job, this is your role as a parent to educate your kid into this method of thinking to fight the woke brainwashing going on for several decades now.
Fact-checking efforts and media literacy programs aren't left to scientists but the media, and your school teacher is not a scientist, just echoing more bullshit he's not understanding. You learned Newton? Good you have the base. You want to really comprehend Newton and just Newton? You will spend a year on the topic. And let's not even go with General Relativity! Let's just be clear to understand the basics.
There will be a huge effort to do to separate science from the state and its political agenda. Science must remain a tool for understanding the world, not as a partisan issue or an institution that will regulate anything. Every scientific discipline must be funded equally, not just one version of the history to have neutrality. None of the shit we see these days can be qualified of scientific. There are billions spent on researching climate change or more bullshit like say, dark matter, because it's going absolutely nowhere. There's alternatives theories scientists are working on that don't get a percent of the research for monstruous particle detectors or smartly placed thermometers to enhance a confirmation bias that we are the cause of climate change. Same about cancer research, medical fields, agrochemical research, the green bullshit is just communism. And science as a method, and critical thinking can help and will help get us out of this.