"Science is a social process," write the authors, "and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods." This article lists five key concepts that should be taught: uncertainty, peer review, expertise, consensus, and agnatogenesis (that is, the deliberate creation of doubt by corporations or other interests with a financial or political stake). To teach this effectively, however, we have to do more than just say it to students. We have to model how it works. We have to practice it in our day-to-day learning practices.
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