I'm glad the EU is acting to combat this, but there's a deeper problem. The amount of people who lack basic critical thinking skills, and can't figure out the truth of facts for themselves. The amount of people who've become convinced vaccines are dangerous, being just one recent example of this.
Eroding the aspects of public education that contribute to people's critical thinking skills and civics knowledge has been in the republican playbook since the Regan administration. Not that we were all that known for it before then...
I'm glad the EU is acting to combat this, but there's a deeper problem. The amount of people who lack basic critical thinking skills, and can't figure out the truth of facts for themselves. The amount of people who've become convinced vaccines are dangerous, being just one recent example of this.
Eroding the aspects of public education that contribute to people's critical thinking skills and civics knowledge has been in the republican playbook since the Regan administration. Not that we were all that known for it before then...