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Why was a substitute teacher fired for witchcraft? Because:
This ought to make every 8th grade science teacher weep.
Our democracy is in the hands of these ignorant people! They elect senators and congressmen who are expected to make policy on global warming, healthcare, and nuclear power. What can people who know nothing about the issues contribute with their vote besides choosing whichever candidate is the most beautiful / the most propagandized by media? We are in deep shit unless the education system improves. Economic effects of education are insignificant next to education's role in democracy.
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Who gives a fiddler's fuck about how we got here?? Evolution explains about 20 percent of the big picture anyhoo....the critical issue is this:
People are useful in masses, when their heads are up their asses, buried in pussy, television, and fatty foods, and wondering who is going to win what and where....We need to kill the son of a bitches keeping us in this state, if we ever want to see any REAL evolution on this motherfucker-drag then out of their high towers, kill them, their offspring, and for crissakes build a monument to the day we freed our minds-Non-linear is the only way to evolve....not in some goddamn straight line-(I haven't said fuck Obama in the ass today yet...."Fuck Obama up in his ass!")
Still, if you don't know the [assumed true] answer to (this), you're (this):
Question 1: A moron.
2: Brainwashed
3: Old
4: Not thinking
5: Not interested in science (normal)
6: Old (or misinformed) (in general normal, your doctor needs to know this more than you do)
7: Religious (normal) or uninformed (unfortunate) or apathetic (even more normal)
8: Religious (normal) or uninformed (unfortunate) or apathetic (even more normal)
9: Religious (normal) or uninformed (unfortunate)
10: Moron
We can't all know everything folks, even if I do. Most people probably knew a number of the questions, but not all of them. This doesn't mean that about 50% of the world is stupid, it means 50% of the questions are not common knowledge. Also don't forget this study isn't studying only college graduates. It likely covers people of most ages (if it's any good), so that means your grandma as well that uncle that's always drunk at family reunions... Remember that before you despair. Do you really expect your grandma who spent her life in social work to give a crap what an electron is or what Pangaea was?
For instance right now there's a big push for government subsidies of ethanol production, even though it consumes more energy than it produces. Although that could be remedied by making more efficient distilleries and halting the use of expensive fertilizers and pesticides, the subsidies encourage them to just produce as much ethanol as possible in less efficient ways.
They ought to be using leftovers from the fermentation/distillation process as fertilizer instead of buying fresh nitrate fertilizer that takes a few kilowatt-hours per pound to produce.