Scientific:
66% do not understand DNA, “margin of error,” the scientific process, and do not
believe in evolution.
50% do not know how long it takes the earth to go around the sun, and a quarter does not even know that the earth goes around the sun.
50% think humans coexisted with dinosaurs and believe antibiotics kill viruses.
Pseudoscience:
88% believe in alternative medicine.
50% believe in extrasensory perception and faith healing.
40% believe in haunted houses and demonic possession.
33% believes in lucky numbers, ghosts, telepathy,
clairvoyance, astrology, and that UFOs are aliens from space.
25% believes in witches and that we can communicate with the dead.
Then at the end of the blog Dave asks if we should be concerned about the fact that more people around us think and believe more in communication with the dead than knowing how long it takes the earth to orbit the sun. What I thought mattered from this is that in the end he kind of mentions that people when they are raised do what they are told and kind of grow up to believe what they are told, but then again when they grow up they kind of don't really think about how they were raised and why they and their family believe in what they believe in. When I read that last part it kind of made me think about why my family believes in what they believe in and how I was raised and thought the was I was. Then I realized that I was not really thought to believe in a certain way and not really thought that I had to do this because previous generations did it. I was just kind of raised and thought to make my own opinions on things and to kind of not think one way and to be open minded. Of course to be honest and how to be polite, but not really how to think of things.
This relates to the world because when others are thought to think of things in a particular way they are kind of judged by it and it causes other problems like a chain reaction.
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