ALGUMAS PERCEPÇÕES DE ESTUDANTES DO ENSINO MÉDIO SOBRE CIÊNCIAS, PSEUDOCIÊNCIA E MOVIMENTOS ANTICIENTÍFICOS.

In the present work, we aim to qualitatively and interpretively analyze the conceptions of some high school students about the processes of production and validation of scientific knowledge. For this purpose, we reviewed some concepts of knowledge, scientific methodologies, pseudoscience, denialism/negationism and anti-scientism. These concepts were presented and discussed within the context of the current revolution in communication and its implications. To illustrate these concepts, we brought up themes that gained great repercussion in the virtual environment, such as the growth of movements such as Flat-Earthers and Antivaccines, and also denial of climate change. We then developed a questionnaire that was applied in the form of semi-structured interviews, to investigate how high school students would react to these themes. With our analysis we realized that the students we have interviewed have a dogmatic view of science and often confuse the terms "scientific" and "truth". They also confuse scientific facts with opinion, especially when it comes to the humanities. These observations may be associated with a gap in the understanding of aspects related to the production of scientific knowledge, as well as the historical and sociocultural issues that permeate it. Such an approach is foreseen in the guiding documents of Brazilian education, but as we will see, there is a abyss between these documents and public schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]