Over the past few years, there has been a grassroots professional rejection
of bogus ideas within education, coupled with a wellspring of enthusiasm for more credible alternatives.
«In a sceptical age, even those disseminating
wholly bogus ideas - from corporate pseudo-science to 9/11 conspiracy theories - will often seek to appropriate the language of rational inquiry.
Growing up I learned that the biblical creation narrative is meant to be a scientific explanation for how the world came to be, that the earth is 6,000 years old, and that evolutionary theory is
a bogus idea invented by godless scientists.
It is politically correct to say that the planet is running out of resources,
a bogus idea, but often stated.
It was a darkly amusing sidelight that members of the House of Representatives managed to trot out every «urban myth» about Social Security as true during their hearings, including
the bogus idea that everyone has their contributions stored in the own little accounts.