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To: epicure who wrote (5896)1/19/2004 11:36:33 AM
From: zonder  Respond to of 20773
 
the majority of people in the US are very ignorant about science

That is not my experience with friends and colleagues from the US, but I would not argue that they are representative of the nation at large. Especially at a time when a presidential candidate bragged about never reading books nor newspapers, AND got elected.

Since religion is declining in Europe, you are lucky- you don't have an anti-rational faction emanating from a large religious section of your populace- and I envy you that.

I think I lived quite long enough in such places, thank you very much :-)