I had a similar path, although I became skeptical of data during high school. There were and certainly are teachers who biased their lectures to fit their own narratives, and back when I was in school I lived in an area that expected blind subservience to “respect your elders” no matter what… it’s why I went into STEM – harder to pass off BS in STEM. And why I teach in STEM today, and why I am always open to logical arguments – from everybody including students, but not from posers.
When you start out by insulting roughly one third of the voting population (“The libs that populate these cartoon sites…”) why are you surprised that people don’t see things the way you say you see them?
BTW I’m an Independent, and I agree that both major political parties deserve some blame, but I see no benefit in starting your argument by pointing your finger at one party. It smacks of bias that undermines your credibility.
Everybody knows that whatever the GQP accuses Democrats of doing, they’re doing themselves… the more we hear them shout “China Joe” the more we know they are admitting to “China Donald”…
I had a similar path, although I became skeptical of data during high school. There were and certainly are teachers who biased their lectures to fit their own narratives, and back when I was in school I lived in an area that expected blind subservience to “respect your elders” no matter what… it’s why I went into STEM – harder to pass off BS in STEM. And why I teach in STEM today, and why I am always open to logical arguments – from everybody including students, but not from posers.