Add to basic principles: Scientific temper and rational thinking
Akshay Mon 17 May 2021 2:26PMPublicSeen by 41A lot of social problems (like stereotyping, fake news, superstitions) arise from cognitive biases, irrational thinking, and lack of scientific temper. We should make it a basic principle to work on improving scientific temper and rational thinking in the society.
Pirate BadyMon 7 Jun 2021 8:40PM
it is great that our national constitution has already explicitly adopted scientific temper along with humanism. since it is already there, do we need to adopt the same or shall we add anything more to it? @Akshay as the one who proposed this idea, what do you think?
it is also very important to note that we seem to live in a very critical time in the history of our country since independence where illogical ideas are purposefully propagated one after another like never before to fool citizens and to escape from answering real life problems. i think we can add the following points in our manifesto to counter this:
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In order to promote scientific temper we will add the following to the curriculum of school students:
How to think critically
Logical fallacies
Scientific method
Difference between science and pseudoscience
Pirate Praveen ·Tue 25 May 2021 1:26PM
Agree with scientific temper. Not really sure about rational thinking, as rational thinking with a wrong axiom can lead to absurd conclusions. Analysing many complex social issues inevitabily lead to assumptions to make analysis easier.