>If you learn how to use photoshop then you’re unlikely to relearn GIMP.
We currently see something related to this in the Pharmaceutical industry. There are a lot of statisticians/programmers that learn R or python in university, while most large-pharma companies are using SAS. There is a movement within the industry to pivot or try to pivot to R due to the scarcity of SAS programmers or/and the cost of teaching new employees a new programming language.
If SAS would have more accessible trainings/certifications I am sure R would never even be considered.
As someone who works in pharma currently, I have seen the same. The pharmacovigilance unit does search the internet/social media for AE's, off-label use, etc (depending on region). Secondly every single person in the company also needs to report events when they see/hear/read them. So not having that social-media department wouldn't be doing much, not all thousands of employees can/will/want to avoid social media.
I work in the privacy field. I can tell you that after GDPR the multi national I work for has become a lot more careful/aware about data privacy. We went from collect everything and just store it, to actually having limitation of data collected and how long they are stored.
For climate change, if someone links a fake study that comes to the right conclusion, you can still call them out for it. If they bring up some statistics you can still ask where they come from, and see if they are generated in a valid way. If someone asks you shouldn't link them other studies.
There is nothing wrong with asking how we can know some specific source is truthful or not. So far no one has answered my actual questions.
We currently see something related to this in the Pharmaceutical industry. There are a lot of statisticians/programmers that learn R or python in university, while most large-pharma companies are using SAS. There is a movement within the industry to pivot or try to pivot to R due to the scarcity of SAS programmers or/and the cost of teaching new employees a new programming language.
If SAS would have more accessible trainings/certifications I am sure R would never even be considered.