We don't have an information problem

@simonmaechling wrote: We don't have an information problem. We have a scientific literacy and trust problem. I agree. Kids learn science as a set of established facts, formulas, and historical discoveries. Best case is they come away from high school aware of some sequence of wrong theories eventually replaced by the correct one. Atoms were indivisible solid spheres, then we discovered they contained electrons, then protons and neutrons, and finally quantum mechanics revealed "what atoms really are". They almost always miss that scientific theories are rarely discarded because they are "false." Scientific theories are models with a limited domain of validity and as new evidence appears, we develop theories that explain a wider range of phenomena while preserving the successful predictions of earlier models where those models already worked. Students learn the fun anecdotes (Newton was sitting under a tree), but no attention is paid to how scientific knowledge is actually produced.…