U.S. belief in pseudoscience is up
April 20, 2003 on 11:50 pm | In Ad Rem | 17 CommentsCheck out this Space.com article on poor scientific literacy in the United States. It is an older article, but my blog is relatively new. “The study found that science literacy has improved only slightly since the previous survey and that 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.”
I find these results truly sad. I wish all people would be as enthused as am I by the sciences. The education system in this country is poor. We don’t hire teachers based on their scientific beliefs as we should. Can you imagine a science teacher who believes in creationism? A co-worker of mine has told me his science teacher once laughed at him when he said he thought evolution was more likely. There are still states in this nation which on are the edge of teaching creationism in schools! We have so many answers in front of our faces, yet we ignore them. I fear the future will see the 20th and 21st centuries as a naive and cult-driven time.