AND people are being taught to question actual science's validity, too. I don't mean in the sense you do, constant questioning, I mean the actual idea of science, period. The scientific method, experiments, peer review etc.
Example: My lady friend is basically Ultra-MAGA but also ridiculously uneducated - she is from Vietnam and literally had about 2 years of actual school growing up. So I'll explain how random things work just to help catch her up a bit, and anytime I say something is because science figured it out she gets a skeptical look and says stuff like "oh like Fauci" - so I've had to repeatedly explain the difference.
Like with flat Earthers and moon landing deniers give them the at home experiments. Science is never to be trusted. It can be tested and proves itself.
However... You're friend isn't entirely wrong to be skeptical... What we know is subject to change at any new discovery. And a lot of what we have been taught has been manipulated to facilitate the industrial way of life... So much of what we have been told and corralled into is lies. And our understanding of what you and I may call "basic" or "common knowledge" has been corrupted throughout the years.
As I said, look up easy to prove home experiments in response to your friend's skepticism.
AND people are being taught to question actual science's validity, too. I don't mean in the sense you do, constant questioning, I mean the actual idea of science, period. The scientific method, experiments, peer review etc.
Example: My lady friend is basically Ultra-MAGA but also ridiculously uneducated - she is from Vietnam and literally had about 2 years of actual school growing up. So I'll explain how random things work just to help catch her up a bit, and anytime I say something is because science figured it out she gets a skeptical look and says stuff like "oh like Fauci" - so I've had to repeatedly explain the difference.
Like with flat Earthers and moon landing deniers give them the at home experiments. Science is never to be trusted. It can be tested and proves itself.
However... You're friend isn't entirely wrong to be skeptical... What we know is subject to change at any new discovery. And a lot of what we have been taught has been manipulated to facilitate the industrial way of life... So much of what we have been told and corralled into is lies. And our understanding of what you and I may call "basic" or "common knowledge" has been corrupted throughout the years.
As I said, look up easy to prove home experiments in response to your friend's skepticism.