The problem in Western civilization is not empathy. It is a willingness to believe stories without evidence. It's willingness to believe anything that "makes sense", which can be hijacked by recreating the fight/flight/freeze response through words (which shuts down all critical thinking). (1/4)

Someone please explain this to me in a way that doesn't have so many holes in the story I could drive a tractor-trailer through them as if they are a high-speed tunnel...

I've seen this meme reposted as a math and biology team as well. Here's the true story best i can tell:

This is the high school US chemistry team that won the International Chemistry Olympiad held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand in 2017.

The top 32 out of 293 received gold. All 4 got gold for the US.