A video demonstrating the effects of lack of critical thinking courses in science.

This video is about a Physics professor with the help of a Philosophy professor submitting hoax articles to a Physics journal. I believes this highlights the need for more Critical Thinking courses. The Physics professors reviewing the article likely never took a single Critical Thinking course. I would not be surprised if they were totally ignorant of Critical Theory, Critical Gender Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Queer Theory, or anything outside of their Western male centric paradigm. The video is a perfect illustration of what happens when the propeller head reviewers have no idea how to deconstruct a narrative. This is why we need to teach Critical Thinking in all subject areas.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

Moderate71 said:

This video is about a Physics professor with the help of a Philosophy professor submitting hoax articles to a Physics journal. I believes this highlights the need for more Critical Thinking courses. The Physics professors reviewing the article likely never took a single Critical Thinking course. I would not be surprised if they were totally ignorant of Critical Theory, Critical Gender Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Queer Theory, or anything outside of their Western male centric paradigm. The video is a perfect illustration of what happens when the propeller head reviewers have no idea how to deconstruct a narrative. This is why we need to teach Critical Thinking in all subject areas.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

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I fear a large lack of critical thinking when the link takes you to youtube and turns out to be a Joe Rogan poscast.

Moderate71 said:

This video is about a Physics professor with the help of a Philosophy professor submitting hoax articles to a Physics journal. I believes this highlights the need for more Critical Thinking courses. The Physics professors reviewing the article likely never took a single Critical Thinking course. I would not be surprised if they were totally ignorant of Critical Theory, Critical Gender Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Queer Theory, or anything outside of their Western male centric paradigm. The video is a perfect illustration of what happens when the propeller head reviewers have no idea how to deconstruct a narrative. This is why we need to teach Critical Thinking in all subject areas.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

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And nobody would have loved this video more than Bill Maher, who, once had a TV show called Politically Incorrect.

So even though it's kind of sad that you can find people of letters that are really stupid what's tragic is when the president's bulb is dimly-lit as well.

Fortunately the dumb ones of letters will have far less of an effect on the State of the Union than the president

Btw, were the reviewers of these hoaxes physics professors? Are you sure about that?

Moderate71 said:

This video is about a Physics professor with the help of a Philosophy professor submitting hoax articles to a Physics journal. I believes this highlights the need for more Critical Thinking courses. The Physics professors reviewing the article likely never took a single Critical Thinking course. I would not be surprised if they were totally ignorant of Critical Theory, Critical Gender Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Queer Theory, or anything outside of their Western male centric paradigm. The video is a perfect illustration of what happens when the propeller head reviewers have no idea how to deconstruct a narrative. This is why we need to teach Critical Thinking in all subject areas.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

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How would teaching Critical Race/Gender/Queer Theory stop the acceptance of hoax articles?

In short, these two guys produced some ridiculous academic papers that were accepted and published, which from what they say is not an easy process. One took passages from Mein Kampf and replaced Jews with white people. Another was about rape culture at dog parks. They basically expose how ridiculously far left some college campuses have become and how threatening it is to have opposing views.

spud_meister said:

How would teaching Critical Race/Gender/Queer Theory stop the acceptance of hoax articles?

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They only teach those courses in the Liberal Arts. If the Physicists that reviewed the articles for the Physics journal had studied those things, they would have seen the logical flaws in it. Physicists can't reason with facts and logic or with the same depth of thought as scientists from the social sciences and humanities can, they are more encyclopedic stores of facts and figures with good calculating power. In the Liberal Arts, students are forced to takes courses based on critical thinking. This is why the Liberal Arts are so much better than STEM at preventing their disciplines from being infested with pseudo-intellectual BS. The Physics journal publishing the hoax articles demonstrates this.

In another post I provided a link to a paper by two STEM professors that advised people against critical thinking. Here are a few passages from the articled followed by a link:

"In other words, Enlightenment style critical thinking is an indispensable part of managing perceptual deviations from objective reality. Furthermore, it is crucial that science and the scientific method hold a privileged position with respect to all other ways of knowing."

"The conventional understanding of what constitutes critical thinking is very close to the core paradigm upon which the STEM disciplines are founded."

"When the public and employers hear the expression ―critical thinking they assume those who invoke the term have this definition in mind and this is not the case with respect to postmodernist faculty.
Enlightenment critical thinking is based on positive science which is the study of what is, while humanities critical thinking is based on normative science which is the study of how things ought to be."

"The STEM disciplines are data driven; students master rigorous quantitative techniques used to process empirical data, evidence, and information. Formal analytical models reveal evidence can be consistent with multiple hypotheses, some of the hypotheses may be competing, some complementary, and others non-competing; which means teasing out real cause and effect is a formidable task. They also learn that conclusions must be tested against evidence"

If you have time, please read this article I linked. They are arguing against Critical Thinking.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=1836582