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who prides themselves in anti-intellectualism? Who is we exactly?
the scientists were preaching theories as facts. it is not as if scientists are the holders of truth, and anything they say is absolute.
We pride ourselves on our anti-intellectualism. , we just had our State Board of Education saying that we need to quit listening to scientists and curriculum experts when trying to decide what to teach our nation's youth.
who prides themselves in anti-intellectualism? Who is we exactly?
the scientists were preaching theories as facts. it is not as if scientists are the holders of truth, and anything they say is absolute.
"who prides themselves in anti-intellectualism"
This book is nearly 50 years old, nothing has changed
http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellect.../dp/0394703170
Scientists "preaching" betrays your own ideologically/politically warped bias, the bias of someone duped by assholes like the Koch brothers and their financing of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, the oil/gas/energy corps to "conserve" their and others' positions as the exploitative, blood-sucking wealthy while beating down the rest of society.
Your second statement answers your first.
Its the notion that because one has an opinion on a matter, that necessarily makes it equal to another's opinion on the same matter, regardless of the amount of knowledge or experience each party has supporting their respective opinions.
It's this -
It's the automatic distrust of the educated or academia.
I'm not saying it's anything new.
ing idiot neocons trying to bring everything down to their level. Case in point : scientist = preacher
come one, scientist just preach theories..I mean the notion that the earth is more than 2, 0000 yrs old is silly. We need to include in text books that the earth could be millions of years old or it could be a couple of thousand yrs old. let the kids decide what they want to believe... stupid liberals (lib s for WC)..ing idiot neocons trying to bring everything down to their level. Case in point : scientist = preacher
I don't know one, I know quite a few.
The entire American citizenry, or more accurately, the right wing of this country. In the 8 years of the Bush Presidency alot of people prided themselves on being good old boy rednecks who don't about . Bush constantly priding himself on being a C student at Yale.
Then we get a Presidential candidate who is actually intelligent and well spoken, and people bash him for being an elitist, or the anti-Christ because he is smart and charismatic.
As if public education before NCLB was the land of milk and honey. Public education works as it was intended. But the public debate will continue on in Groundhog Day fashion as if it is not.
Not to mention that if educational quality was a function of expenditure, American primary and secondary education would be the envy of the world. But it's not. And trying to pin its failings on a policy less than a decade old is ignorant.
no cussing.ing idiot neocons trying to bring everything down to their level. Case in point : scientist = preacher
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