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TaylorS1986 · 3420 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hey Hubski, what are your thoughts on scientific illiteracy?
I think that it gets (metaphorically) beaten out of them. "Mommy, why is the sky blue?" "Mommy doesn't know, quit asking such stupid, useless questions!" American society is anti-intellectual to an extreme, almost pathological, degree and acts very negatively towards anything without an immediate, concrete, practical, and most especially PROFITABLE, use.What it really comes down to though, I think, is a loss of curiosity and wonder. Children are great at this: "why is the sky blue?," but something seems to get lost as people grow older. If people kept this curiosity and coupled it with critical thinking skills and the ability to evaluate evidence and accept the fitting conclusions then we'd be much better off.