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MarkCharles

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2. Compared to folks in the USA, lots of nations have ..
Reply to TZ (Reply #1)
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 09:00 AM
Dec 2011

more skeptical and more analytically trained young adults.

Non-college/non-university young folks in countries as diverse as the UK, Germany, Romania, and South Africa, as well as Japan seem to "get it" about the nature of scientific disciplines and inquiry, and don't fall for pseudo-scientific cons as easily as folks in the USA seem to do.

Then again, we have fundamentalist religious colleges in the USA where the teaching of geology, astronomy and evolution are not offered as part of the science curriculum. Can we guess why?

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