Ignorance is rampant and easy -- from the article : "Although according to a 2012 paper by Gordon Gauchat, a University of North Carolina sociologist, the erosion of trust in science over the past 40 years has been almost exclusively confined to two groups: conservatives and regular churchgoers."

It is so easy to just sit and watch FoxNews and be fed intellectual pablum to gin the up base - my communications with much of my southern family are minimal these days because of that...

Not surprising, look who sits in the Oval Office, Commander Stupid.

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Omg the “good News”is that 69% of Americans “believe in DNA.” What the mother f$ck is wrong with this country?!

Three major groups are responsible: (1) evangelical Christians, (2) the ethnocentric white community, and (2) conservative politicians and demagogues.

Proof that the evolutionary ladder goes both ways.

It's been publicly extolled since Raygun..