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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnce per congressional term, require an 8th grade science test for every federal office-holder.
With questions regarding human evolution from lower life-forms to the science behind man-made global warming to the science behind vaccine effectiveness. More topics would also need to be added but this is just a baseline suggestion.
This puts congress-critters views on paper, front and center. Make every elected politicians political "beliefs" regarding science a clear issue by making these test results public.
When the GOP idiots deny global warming, these test results show the US citizens the kind of ignorance that the GOP represents, and why they should be removed from power.
When the GOP denies evolution, they deny one of the most important parts of modern human physiology and health. We evolved to be healthy from certain foods and we get sick from eating bad diets. Science explains this. The GOP denies it. Its all in God's hands, according to them. Live for today and not tomorrow.
When the GOP denies vaccine efforts, they prove themselves unfit for any elected office. They are a dangerous lot. Vaccine denial should become a federal crime.
When global warming creates the next super-pandemic bug, science will be our saviour, not the GOP's ignorant denial and prayers.
Science will save us from covid, GOP prayers won't.
Put their scientific views on paper so we can show their stupidity to the world.
Almost the entire GOP is made up of 8th grade science flunkouts.
Once every 2 years, every elected officeholder should take an 8th grade science test. One day, 4 hours to complete it.
Put their scientific knowledge or lack thereof on paper, for all the world to see.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Imallin4Joe
(758 posts)onethatcares
(16,204 posts)just for the hell of it.
progree
(10,930 posts)I think that was the state of scientific "knowledge" at that time and place (from the Greeks).
Like the Constitution originalists, shouldn't we have science originalists?
Probably flat earth too. Though some Greeks had figured out it was round, I think that was probably a little-known pointy-headed leftist academic intellectual elitist theory at the time.