{"id":13222,"date":"2013-02-25T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13222"},"modified":"2013-02-25T03:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:00:21","slug":"scientific-illiteracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13222","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transhumanity.net\/articles\/entry\/scientific-illiteracy\">Scientific Illiteracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is certainly a problem, but when it reaches the level of elected officials it has gone beyond a problem of literacy. I&#8217;d venture to say that Paul Broun being Chairman of the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is not so much illiteracy as bordering on the abdication of responsibility on the part of the GOP. That someone like this could be elected is surely a symptom of the illiteracy in the US, but brings with it a whole new level of problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When elected officials, the very people we ask to lead our country, are ignorant of how the world works, how can our country be expected to survive much longer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, I can&#8217;t help but think that if meteor impacts had been brought up as a point of discussion a few weeks ago, there would have been a backlash of anti-science opposition, attacking the science and scientists involved and accusations of fear-mongoring. (Now, of course, there&#8217;s a possibility of an overreaction and advocation of programs that will be nothing but safety theater.) There seems to be a tendency to deny there is any problem until it has reached a crisis level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Illiteracy There is certainly a problem, but when it reaches the level of elected officials it has gone beyond a problem of literacy. I&#8217;d venture to say that Paul Broun being Chairman of the US House Committee on Science, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-education","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}