George Clooney for United to Defeat Untruthful Misinformation And Support Science (UDUMASS) - With all the Information we have available today are we Dumber than ever before?
We have way more information today, more quickly available, to many more people than ever before in our history. We should be the brightest and best-informed humans that ever lived on Earth. Yet we seem to have really conflicting ideas on health issues, diet issues, shooting up schools, abortions, climate change, gender rights and a distrust/suspicion around scientists (I'm referring to the global situation and no single country is entirely blameless).
The social media stirring pot is not really doing much to make things better at all. If anything it is just stirring more and more mud into the mix with emotions, noise, opinions and ideologies ultimately triumphing over what some see as common sense and science.
According to a new report from the United Nations, our planet is in worse shape than at any other time in human history. Scientific fact is suddenly seen as some kind of partisan scare tactic. It endangers us all, so George Clooney is spearheading a new initiative to raise awareness of this foray into ignorance, and what he has to say is important.
For me it is not about who is just right or wrong, it is about how do we agree to determine who is right or wrong. Right now it seems to be the people with the most Twitter, YouTube or Facebook followers.
So yes this video did get me thinking a bit - watch it at youtu.be/0Ab4BRAQElw
#UDUMASS #georgeclooney youtu.be/0Ab4BRAQElw
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-165c-d2e7-5c5c-918186901839
The social media stirring pot is not really doing much to make things better at all. If anything it is just stirring more and more mud into the mix with emotions, noise, opinions and ideologies ultimately triumphing over what some see as common sense and science.
According to a new report from the United Nations, our planet is in worse shape than at any other time in human history. Scientific fact is suddenly seen as some kind of partisan scare tactic. It endangers us all, so George Clooney is spearheading a new initiative to raise awareness of this foray into ignorance, and what he has to say is important.
For me it is not about who is just right or wrong, it is about how do we agree to determine who is right or wrong. Right now it seems to be the people with the most Twitter, YouTube or Facebook followers.
So yes this video did get me thinking a bit - watch it at youtu.be/0Ab4BRAQElw
#UDUMASS #georgeclooney youtu.be/0Ab4BRAQElw
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-165c-d2e7-5c5c-918186901839
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