Professional Idiots

[Diablos1979]

pleaserecycle said:

Qwark said:

In a previous post I called this the Facebook gen phenomenon. In which people assume their coworker or Facebook is more reliable than an evidence based journal or article written by a professional. This one is dangerous because more and more people seem to be very much into Facebook and Twitter news which has very little credibility or they just blindly follow youtube celebrities which neatly always try to push a certain agenda. 

I think there's an underlying issue in which, as children, we're taught so many ideas without explanations.  Most of us will probably never think about the earth being round again because it doesn't directly impact our daily routine.  But we might encounter someone with an interesting question: if the earth is round, then why are railroad tracks straight?  We may not know the answer and we may not know how to find it.  At this point we don't have any explanation for why the earth is round, but we have a reason, which actually seems very intuitive, negating it.

Yes we do, it's called gravity :)