I can read almost any text

tfw thought crime is more illegal than thot crime

Scientists are given their title based on memorization, not on critical thought

NO

there is a God shaped hole in the heart of man. if we dont fill it with a god we will fill it with some other ideology

@Gilgamesh The holes in our belief systems were what eventually led us to the assumption that the Earth is not flat in the first place. Shadow patterns and wells were the beginning

Real scientists are using critical thought and being called morons

Scientists aren't the new priests, you can challenge their ideas and if you show valid proof of something else you will be respected and the consensus of what the truth is changes.

Though I don;t know how we got on the topic that just beacause the majority thinks it is true it must be true

tfw people in your culture thought police more than they thot police

Critical thinking is a post modern idea. I use the socratic method

Some people like to follow "I fucking love science" on facebook ,but that's not a monolith for everyone

TFW people think relying on majority ends up with there being logic

@Gilgamesh Also, you're welcome to The Onion with that "scientists aren't using critical thought" argument

Scientists memorize stuff before them and build upon it

With logic

Good one, Zepp

The left part of the brain

Critical thought gave us relativity just a century ago

^

Scientists literally only get their degrees by memorizing things told to them

no, the socratic method did, not critical thought

If there was a flaw in what they were told to memorize, they'd be wrong forever

and that is what is happening

that's why we're fucked for having standardized systems

If scientists just memorize, why the fuck new stuff appears. do they just remember it @Gilgamesh

I think critical thought is the most basic form of rationality. It's easy, anyone can critisize

And it's been around for a long time

Scientists regularly investigate the assumptions of the past.

^

Isn't the socratic method within the realm of critical thinking though?

new stuff appears because they convince the morons who only memorized, some of them are willing to make shit up

How do you think we figured out that we aren't a geocentric flat earth

fucking hell

A car got invented

Is it made up

No

Socratic flips to a right brain thought more often, when a new question is asked

the vast majority of scientists are the same as new college students

holy fuck

Or is critical thought something different and specific compared to the idea of critical thinking as a whole?