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Once every month or so, I read some article or hear some news which make me stop and think: "Wouhaou, aren't we in deep if the Americans mind are still so clouded by obscurantism". Then, because I like to think my mind is not, I go on and think about state information propaganda and how it also affects France, and how I am bound to be kind of blind sided.

Anyway, yesterday in the NYT was a scary article entitled Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets.

We've had state and Church separated for so long in France that we forget how our academic knowledge could be biased with religious beliefs. Americans certainly have not forgotten and are still trying to get Darwin out of school. At least if Darwin's not out their trying to force God in again.
They have recently found a new and unexpected ally...Michael Crichton! As most people are still not sure whether global warming is a reality or a reality show, Boards of Education and Conservatives of some states are riding on skepticism and debatable scientific conclusions to push anti darwinism teaching.

In Kentucky, a bill recently introduced in the Legislature would encourage teachers to discuss “the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories,” including “evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning.”

The linkage of evolution and global warming is partly a legal strategy: courts have found that singling out evolution for criticism in public schools is a violation of the separation of church and state. By insisting that global warming also be debated, deniers of evolution can argue that they are simply championing academic freedom in general.

Yet there is little doubt that the skepticism about global warming resonates more strongly among conservatives, and Christian conservatives in particular. A survey published in October by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that white evangelical Protestants were among those least likely to believe that there was “solid evidence” that the Earth was warming because of human activity.
Only 23 percent of those surveyed accepted that idea, compared with 36 percent of the American population as a whole.
So.....64% of the American population doesn't believe that there are "solid evidence" that the earth is warming because of human activity. Which means that 64% of the population of the most polluting counrty doesn't think there is anything to do about it. and given the medium they use to convey this idea _ class books_ I'd say the reste of us are in deep trouble!


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