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  Re: Scientific illiteracy in boards of education  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 7 Nov 2012 14:44:08
Message: <509aba08$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:34:38 -0500, Warp wrote:

> It's curious how the word of a few laymen, with no education nor
> experience in the required fields of science, completely trump the
> thousands and thousands of hours of scientific experimentation and
> testing, hundreds of extensive clinical trials involving thousands of
> people, all performed by diverse scientists from around the world, from
> different countries, backgrounds and cultures (and who can't possible
> *all* of them have the same agenda and be part of the same conspiracy.)

You'd think so, but many people seem to think that their belief and 
ignorance trumps actual knowledge.

xkcd yesterday/today summed it up pretty well, I thought.

Jim


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