Anti-Intellectual Arguments Against Anti-Intellectualism Are Always Such Fun!

In a recent NYT Op-Ed Nicholas Kristof points out the frightening and lamentable facts that “40 percent of Americans believe in evolution, and only 13 percent know what a molecule is…  One-fifth of Americans still believe that the Sun goes around the Earth, instead of the other way around. And only about half know that humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs.”  He rightly goes on to claim that this is “a symptom of something much deeper and more serious: a profound illiteracy about science and math as a whole.”

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Posted by Terry Brown  on  07/08  at  10:17 AM

Your article is absorbing, well-grounded, with a great amount of arguments.
"A human who searches a truth should, at least once in the life, calls in question all the things, as much as it's possible" - these words are addressed to Kristof.

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