Advocating the importance of science

Advocate science, oppose superstition and be a civilized citizen.

"Proud of advocating science and ashamed of ignorance" is one of the important contents of the socialist concept of honor and disgrace put forward by General Secretary Hu Jintao. It emphasizes standardizing moral value orientation with scientific spirit, embodies the characteristics of socialist morality in the times, and is a guide for the broad masses of people to advocate science, stay away from ignorance and refuse superstition.

Science and superstition are opposites. Throughout the development of human history, we can clearly see the extreme importance of science and culture to the survival and development of a nation. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and scientific thinking is an important spiritual force. To be independent and prosperous, a country and a nation must vigorously advocate the spirit of advocating science and opposing ignorance, and strive to improve the scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation. Superstition, to a great extent, is an ignorance, a fear and submission to natural and social forces. In the past, due to the lack of scientific knowledge, people were puzzled by many phenomena in nature and human society and could not find a reasonable explanation. They believe that these phenomena are dominated by providence and doomed by fate, so various superstitious ideas have emerged. But feudal superstitions are deceptive and deceptive after all. When science and superstition face each other, superstition will be exposed. Some media have reported a story: a number of computer fortune-telling booths have sprung up in a county town, attracting many "high-tech superstitions" to come to fortune-telling. In this regard, the county association for science and technology did not directly prevent people from telling fortune, but also set up a computer fortune-telling kiosk on the streets of the county town to "tell fortune" for the masses free of charge. The difference is that the staff of the Association for Science and Technology, while "telling fortune" for the masses, told fortune tellers about software programs and computer fortune-telling principles. Soon, everyone understood that the so-called high-tech computer fortune-telling was actually just a game and could not be taken seriously, so they gradually lost interest in computer fortune-telling, and the "high-tech fortune-telling" booth in the county town was closed. This example shows that science is a weapon to break superstition. If you give the weapon of science to the masses, they will not believe any superstition under the banner of science.

At present, Yulin science and technology is on the rise, and the upsurge of learning and applying science and technology is taking shape. We should seize the opportunity, take the current socialist concept of honor and disgrace education as an opportunity, carry out extensive publicity and education activities to advocate science and eliminate ignorance, help the general public to establish a new civilized style, resist feudal superstitions, abandon bad living habits, strive to be civilized citizens, form a good atmosphere of "being proud of advocating science and ashamed of ignorance" and a "civilized, healthy and scientific" lifestyle, and enhance the scientific quality and civilized accomplishment of the residents in the city.