Can never produce truth? Really? Never? Perhaps you would like to revise that.

Are you, or are you not, an educator, Bravus?

Do you do this to your students? Just throw something up on the board with your only comment being the broad stroke condemnation, "Dear America: Do you plan to get it together any time soon?" and then come down on your students when they start discussing the conclusion of the author in the article that YOU posted?

Here is the concluding paragraph:


Note that the objection in the concluding paragraph of the author is not what the legislators took out, but what they left in - about the global warming debate. And I, and all those scientists I posted early in this thread, agree with what the legislators left in the Bill.

So, please acknowledge that I was addressing the conclusion of the author in the article at the link YOU provided to start the thread and, subsequently, the open derision on TRMS link provided by Neil. In my opinion, if you weren't trying to ridicule those who are opposed to the unproven theory that man's miniscule contribution to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing warming of the planet, you did an extremely poor job of distancing yourself from those who were.

And, incidentally, the substitution of the word "astrology" for "astronomy" is a linguistic error which does not mandate your conclusion that it is accompanied by "scientific ignorance."

The thread title was also not intended as an insult to or attack on America. Although I'm an old leftie librul I am *not* reflexively anti-American. America is the world's sole current superpower, and it's going into a decline and fall, at least in part because of this lack of attention to science. How many science PhDs graduated in America last year? And how many in China?

I want America to get it together some time real soon!

Amen! The schools need to focus on it - and Australian schools across the country are moving back to teaching phonics and grammar, which the evidence shows helps with that. But IMO also parents need to be reading to their kids, having their kids read to them, and reading for pleasure themselves so their kids see reading as the normal thing to do. Learning to read in school is one thing, but actually reading regularly is something else - and vitally important.