The mindset of “wah, science is wrong and bad because it changed its mind about something I learned about as a child” is not harmless, it’s how we end up with anti-vaxxers in charge of the CDC
I’ve directly heard the argument from creationists of “they were wrong about Pluto being a planet, why would they be right about evolution?” Yeah, misunderstanding how all this works does matter.
The mindset of “wah, science is wrong and bad because it changed its mind about something I learned about as a child” is not harmless, it’s how we end up with anti-vaxxers in charge of the CDC
I’ve directly heard the argument from creationists of “they were wrong about Pluto being a planet, why would they be right about evolution?” Yeah, misunderstanding how all this works does matter.