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22. Science illiteracy and ideological blindness.

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:31 PM

Jan 2015

Of course, these overlap, but they are responsible for many world problems including many of those mentioned here.

For instance, climate change denial is both from science illiteracy and/or ideological blindness. I don't know whether Inhoff is ignorant or outright deceptive. I cannot see into his brain. But it is certainly one of the two.

I might add that religious fundamentalism is a problem we are all likely going to have to deal with, but that is tied into ideological blindness.

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