Every single day my Chemistry
teacher would say to the class
'95% of Americans are
scientifically
illiterate...don't be one of
them'. That always drove me
crazy. He made fun of those
scientifically illiterate
Americans by saying how easily
they would just take any fact
by anyone as a true fact
without questioning the
valid
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Every single day my Chemistry
teacher would say to the class
'95% of Americans are
scientifically
illiterate...don't be one of
them'. That always drove me
crazy. He made fun of those
scientifically illiterate
Americans by saying how easily
they would just take any fact
by anyone as a true fact
without questioning the
validity of it. This drove me
crazy because this was exactly
what he was reinforcing by
just giving us a fact and not
having us question it.

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