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Originally posted by Dochico: ↑

Where did I say learning to read means you have critical thinking skills? You are destroying your credibility by suggesting I claimed that.

All I said is that children can have interests. And six year olds can definitely have interests. Pretty much all of them go through the phases being interested in dinosaurs and outer space for example.

No, we never want a shield from criticism. Science is built upon robust, peer-reviewed criticism.

However "peer" is the key, scientists simply aren't interested in criticism from ignorant non-specialists with patchy knowledge of the field gleaned from misinformation on social media. Because those criticisms are almost always based on assumptions which have been known to be wrong for decades.

Scientists also aren't interested in criticism from people who have been paid to invent false arguments by organisations who's financial interests would be destroyed.

Greta wasn't put forward as a shield against peer review. When she came forward she was not a scientist, and hadn't completed high school. She came forward because she started a movement which meant that rightly or wrongly, she could honestly say she represented a significant portion of her country's population.

If you want to offer constructive criticism to Greta, do it to her face. Don't cowardly snipe from a forum where she won't be able to read it.

And for your info bullying in the form of endless low effort memes is not constructive criticism. It's bullying.

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