Brainwashed: edited?

Question

Can reading others ideas and discoveries influence you or alter your ideas or thoughts on the world around you? Ex: if you read a person's view on genetics or chemistry etc,...and had to memorize it for a test, can that alter your perception from discovering something better or more accurate in which you build on the scientists path and are altered by it that you don't create your own? Can that author or scientists ideas/discoveries start you of to a wrong path, in which you could have begun a better path if you have not read their books or lived in the same generation as him/her? Also, take into consideration that every person's perception/view is different from the next person around him/her.

Thank you!

Answer 1

um... yes? if you read someone else's opinion and choose to believe it, then that alters your beliefs a bit. If you follow someone's opionions and they are wrong, then you will be believing in something that isn't exactly the truth, though it might not be completely wrong. Just use your own judgement.