Science has a large impact on society, but you wouldn't know it from how it's taught. Comments on the subject as well as noting perhaps the only country in the world that tries to get it right.
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We live in a time when misinformation, including scientific misinformation, is deliberately constructed and circulated. The age of misinformation is coupled with substantial present and future societal challenges such as environmental pollution and more jobs being at risk of automation with the advent of artificial intelligence. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us in no subtle terms that to protect ourselves and others, we need to understand who produces, validates, and shares scientific knowledge in the community, and how the solutions to problems proposed by scientists may be mediated by economic and political dynamics. When scientific evidence is beyond the grasp of the public—which is very often the case—deciphering whose science to believe in and why necessitates that students appreciate the personal, the social, and the institutional dynamics of science.
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