Submitted on Thursday 30th April 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 14th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Improve education for all to promote evidence-based, rational, critical thinking
The British public are suffering a lack of critical thinking skills amid anti-vaccine misinformation and the proliferation of unscientific 5G conspiracies. We should be better equipped to subject information to critical analysis and discern fact from fiction whether it be in science or politics.
As we have seen during the pandemic, the proliferation of misinformation and ignorance of scientific fact costs lives. We call upon the government to better equip the public for their own safety.
One of the best ways to combat this has to be through state education, for schoolchildren and adults. An emphasis on rationality, sceptical inquiry, and analysis of evidence should be a cornerstone of academic endeavour. And this needs practical application to the world around us.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you're concerned about conspiracy theories and misinformation, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the UK Government or Parliament to do.
You could start a new petition asking the UK Government to fund a public information campaign to improve public understanding of science, if that's what you'd like to happen.
You might also like to sign and share this petition instead: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314445
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