I’d rather not, it was 6 years ago and I’m no expert on this topic. My intent here is to explain my experience as a parent looking into these things, and my dismay at the polarization and lack of nuance in scientific discussion.
I would recommend doing a broad google scholar search and looking at everything you can find before coming to your own conclusion, and not letting a stranger or authority cherry pick studies for you.
I could do that. But in the vast majority of cases, I prefer to let the acknowledged experts do that work for me - because that's what they have spent their life doing. In most cases this is more effective that me "Doing my own research" and deciding that the Earth is most decidely flat.
Not your parent, but after "looking into the evidence" I ended up at a different conclusion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99688-w
I’d rather not, it was 6 years ago and I’m no expert on this topic. My intent here is to explain my experience as a parent looking into these things, and my dismay at the polarization and lack of nuance in scientific discussion.
I would recommend doing a broad google scholar search and looking at everything you can find before coming to your own conclusion, and not letting a stranger or authority cherry pick studies for you.
I could do that. But in the vast majority of cases, I prefer to let the acknowledged experts do that work for me - because that's what they have spent their life doing. In most cases this is more effective that me "Doing my own research" and deciding that the Earth is most decidely flat.
If you do your own research and determine the earth is flat, you're stupid.
Don't blame doing your own research. It galls me to hear people refusing to do their own research because other people are famously bad at it.