There are two main answers to this excellent question. First and most obviously, about half of the U.S. electorate supports Donald Trump as our next president. At a minimum, that means anti-intellectualism and the rejection of science in policymaking. This …
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Ancient Athenian comic playwright Aristophanes made a good point here, and it would be easy to ascribe this as an explanation of the support of Donald Trump. Giving the matter a little thought, however, we see that Americans’ IQs haven’t …
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, American politics has reached a point where one of its two major parties, the Republicans, seems to have become aware that it offers nothing of value whatsoever to its base. Its platform consists …
Perhaps what happened in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election yesterday (see left) is evidence that the American people have seen enough. Enough of the criminal insanity, the gun mania, the rejection of science, the suppression of women, and the religious fundamentalism. This …
A reader mentioned recently that we can’t expect Trump’s removal to change much in American society, at least anytime soon. He reasoned that Trump granted us permission to act like ass****s to one another, and there is no mechanism by …
Is our planet regressing deep into its bloody past? No. Fortunately, the rejection of science is almost nonexistent outside the United States. You won’t find other people in the developed world believing that the pandemic was a government plot or …
As suggested at left, the truth used to be a big deal to our society. The motto of Harvard University, arguably our nation’s most prestigious institute of learning, is veritas, signifying that truth is something worth a considerable investment on …
Many of our civilization’s greatest thinkers believe that humankind has found itself in an “evolutionary cul-de-sac,” i.e., that we’ve progressed as far as this species is capable, along road with a dead-end ahead. Normally, these folks talk about our superabundance …
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Of all the absurdities in modern-day America, none is sadder than our rejection of science, in particular, our broadspread and tightly held beliefs that our scientists are liars and crooks. This is just one of the tragic outcomes of what …
James Randi left us in 2020 after an impressive career challenging paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. While I try to avoid judging books by their covers, I have to say from his portrait here that he definitely looks the part. If …
