Americans Are Idiots? 


Check out this article from the NY Times (ridiculous registration required.) It's about a survey conducted regularly for the past 30 years by Jon Miller at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Get this:
Dr. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic knowledge. American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.
Read that last sentence again. TWENTY PERCENT OF ADULT AMERICANS THINK THE SUN REVOLVES AROUND THE EARTH. I can almost forgive the molecules and DNA - but the DAMN SUN?

I now know how people can wholeheartedly endorse such crap as intelligent design. They actually are completely uninformed, and probably don't even know it. UN - FREAKING - BELIEVEABLE. 

 

Posted: Tue - August 30, 2005 at 12:30 PM          

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