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kennyc · 04-14-2010, 08:37 AM

Why does the U.S. get a "FAIL" in science literacy?

Is a cover up by the government in the works to try and hide it?

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress....fic-illiteracy

From that Page: "Today’s issue of Science contains a news article (first pointed out to me by Matthew) about a clumsy (and now failed) attempt by the US’s National Science Board (NSB) to suppress a finding by a National Science Foundation (NSF) survey that Americans’ knowledge of evolution and cosmology remains poor, and well behind that of European and east Asian industrial nations. I am shocked and disconcerted that the NSB, the governing board of the NSF and official science advisers to the president and Congres, would do this. "

Have we become totally complacent and have lost our drive?

Here is some pretty detailed information from the National Science Foundation:

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/

04-14-2010, 08:37 AM	#1
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,907 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Science Literacy in the U.S.A. Why does the U.S. get a "FAIL" in science literacy? Is a cover up by the government in the works to try and hide it? http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress....fic-illiteracy From that Page: "Today’s issue of Science contains a news article (first pointed out to me by Matthew) about a clumsy (and now failed) attempt by the US’s National Science Board (NSB) to suppress a finding by a National Science Foundation (NSF) survey that Americans’ knowledge of evolution and cosmology remains poor, and well behind that of European and east Asian industrial nations. I am shocked and disconcerted that the NSB, the governing board of the NSF and official science advisers to the president and Congres, would do this. " Have we become totally complacent and have lost our drive? Here is some pretty detailed information from the National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/