We Ignore Science at Our Own Expense

Before he left us, Carl Sagan bemoaned our society’s lack of interest in science. “Our mainstream newspapers have daily astrology columns, but not even weekly coverage of breakthroughs in science,” he said.

Were it not for its horrific consequences, this might simply be a trivial, quirky little fact about life here in the U.S. Unfortunately, however, it opens us up to all the crap we absorb from the right-wing “news” sources: e.g., that vaccinations are dangerous, that climate change is a hoax, that Donald Trump is being unfairly persecuted, and that the radical left wants to open our borders and turn us into homosexual socialists.