Your Cooperation is Greatly Appreciated

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2. Don't completely disagree

But I believe that has limited value. The disdain for intelligence and the sciences in general, is pervasive and practically endemic in our society.
These people do not make the simple connection of the very phone in their pocket and science. Or the million other things people take for granted every day that would not exist without scientists and engineers.
I spent my entire time in school playing dumb (not as smart as I really was) in a desperate bid to fit in that I actually started to believe it. I see it as a huge factor of why, to a certain extent, I "played it safe" most of my life.