Anyone have anti-scientific parents? I have vivid memories of

Its easier to teach new generations than old

My father doubts the big bang because he doesn't understand it, he really hates cosmology in general for whatever reason. Doesn't seem to have a problem with evolution oddly enough despite being super Catholic though. When I try to explain to him that the big bang isn't necessarily at odds with Catholic cosmology anyway and in a way reaffirms it he doesn't want to hear it.

>>9121823
My parents aren't anti scientific they just aren't scientists. My dad doesn't get epistemology and that can be a headache. As my dad is extremely intelligent and uneducated, I feel like he gets insecure when I talk down from the ivory tower. My mom and dad both know pretty much everything they know about science through raising me. I was a sperg kid that demanded to be read life encyclopedias instead of stories for bedtime, good for me my mom taught elementary school. I have always been a walking repository of facts because of my fondness for dry, analytical information. As a young adult I was a rightfully angsty life sciences kid. Often lecturing them about ecology and the state of things. They got to see me grow up loving biology and then the joy sucked out of my life with the rest of the living world. It seems they have suffered a lot of my emotional trauma with me. Overall they are very receptive to science but they do not get it like I do.

>>9121823

My dad believes in all sorts of retarded conspiracy theories, from vaccines causing autism to free energy.
He's also convinced that you can use a 5kW diesel generator to run an electric car, and won't be talked out of it no matter how many times I explain to him that it's simply not possible (unless you have a huge battery bank like any other electric car).

I'm glad he at least knows enough not to blow himself up whenever he does some work on his electricals at home.

Other than that he believes in evolution (says niggers are proof, kek. he'd make a good /pol/ack) and everything else though, so he's not TOO extreme. I mean, he's not nearly flat earther level.
Also since I constantly shoot his theories down like a .50 SMG he stopped sharing them with me, which is just as well.

>now we've moved on to capitalism vs communism

>>9121823
My dad threw away an entire 24 pack of bottled water because he thought the electrolytes were poison

>>9122693

lolwut

>>9121823
Not so much my parents, but one day my sister said "I don't like the scientific way of thinking" I've never judged her more in my entire life.

>>9122675
There's no such thing as "free" energy, but I'm pretty sure we haven't tapped into some very easy energy that is out there. The planet's magnetosphere is the most interesting thing for me. If something like that can exist then why can we not figure out how to tap into some sort of the energy that's just floating around. I'm probably bluepilled on this, but I wish tesla could have continued his work all the way until today. I think we would have some pretty mindblowing shit.

>>9122723

Tesla was a great inventor, but most of the stuff you see floating around are memes.

It would be interesting to find ways to utilize the charged particles deflected by Earths magnetosphere, I agree, but then it wouldn't be free energy.
It'd just be a different sort of solar energy.

Most "free energy" devices you see out there are some variant of a generator hastily bolted onto a motor. With a large concealed battery somewhere in the system, of course.

>>9121823
I went to a science museum this year, I am 22. I discarded the social norms and had a lot of fun exloring the whole museum. People are shit for not enjoying stuff because they fear what others might think of them.

>>9122723
Tesla wasn't on touch and he knew it. Don't get me wrong, he was a great man with a great mind, but most people on here who say (((they))) kept his ideas down are simply lying. Just read Tesla's personal writings, he knew that for the most part his ideas were making massive assumptions that could be proven and in some cases didn't even make sense.

>>9122723
For what it's worth, Jupiter's moon Io has the FLUX TUBE which is practically begging to be exploited for electricity generation when space colonization comes about.