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The National Institute of Health describes anxiety as a pathology, a mental state of exaggerated fear “in which hyperexcitability … is expressed as hypervigilance and increased behavioral responsivity to fearful stimuli.” Some people seem to have a pathological need to be frightened, especially by the “fearful stimuli” of “global warming,” “climate change,” “extreme weather” (or substitute the […]
A well known anti-science "think" tank has sent around, to teachers, a mailing including an antiscience book, a movie, and nice letter and, oddly, a pamphlet exposing the fact that the mailing is entirely politically motivated. Most science teachers will ignore this. A few science teachers are science deniers, and they already had the material in the mailings. So, I think this was a huge waste of money and effort. But it happened and you should know about it, and you should warn anyone you know that is a teacher.