Interesting to note I had a good sum of money saved up until Obama had been in office for a year. Now I have no savings. This is fact as I can attest to its authenticity
So it’s Obama’s fault you can’t budget well?
Interesting to note I had a good sum of money saved up until Obama had been in office for a year. Now I have no savings. This is fact as I can attest to its authenticity
I wonder if you have anything to back up the idea that Americans or people in general do not trust smart people. Its an interesting concept. It may even be true but what facts can you provide that support the theory?
Look at all the baseless rejections of mainstream science.
Look at the fact that there are few real intellectuals. An intellectual is a person who pursues knowledge and critical study, whereas most people don't continue to advance their knowledge very much after leaving school, because what they know is enough to function and do whatever job they have. They are not interested in gaining more knowledge except for maybe trivial knowledge which is diluted down and published in articles that they don't actually understand.
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Also look at the disdain for learning and knowledge in general. Have you ever heard somebody say "What do I need to learn this for? I'll never use it!"
So it’s Obama’s fault you can’t budget well?
No. Its his fault the economy tanked and there are more people than at any other time in history who are under employed.
All excellent observations. Yet this still doesn't prove an overall distrust of intelligent people.
All excellent observations. Yet this still doesn't prove an overall distrust of intelligent people.
Id like to point out that Americans trust the knowledge of anyone with a British accent.
I wonder if you have anything to back up the idea that Americans or people in general do not trust smart people.
No. Its his fault the economy tanked and there are more people than at any other time in history who are under employed.
Obama took office just after the global recession hit due to the financial crisis and subprime mortgage crisis, yet you think it's all his fault. Are you trying to epitomize American anti-intellectualism right now?
Obama took office just after the global recession hit due to the financial crisis and subprime mortgage crisis, yet you think it's all his fault. Are you trying to epitomize American anti-intellectualism right now?
I don't think there's anything to prove that in particular because nobody has tried to prove such a thing, at least not that I can find. I don't know any studies on it, but I do see a study that says intelligent people are better at knowing who to trust.
However I don't know that there's an overall distrust. There's just enough of it to be a problem.
Look at all the baseless rejections of mainstream science.
It is believed that anyone who has gone to college has been indoctrinated into the liberal way of thinking. In a way it is true. The data is being interpreted with a liberal bias due to the fact that most professors are liberal. https://www.insidehighered.com/news...ssors-already-liberal-have-moved-further-left
If you don't prescribe to the liberal way of thinking you are then discredited as a scientist or intellectual. We already know the right distrusts liberals. If most intellectuals are liberals then it would be safe to say that the right distrusts most intellectuals.
Small recession turned into what essentially is best described as a depression by the administration. That really cant be denied.
Not entirely 'baseless' since the mainstream science dumbs it down for people to understand and then adds a dash of pseudoscience into it so that it looks exciting. It starts to look silly and baseless. Global warming is described as a 'blanket effect' when the actual thing that is happening is that CO2 is absorbing certain frequencies of light in our lower atmosphere and thereby causing the lower atmosphere to heat slightly. I mean what sounds like your bullshitting me #1 or number 2#?
Then there is all the speculation on time travel and black hole multiple universes. This is all fun and all but it makes today's science look like a cool science fiction novel.
To top it off... It is funded by politics and this alone makes it untrustworthy in the eyes of the people who 'don't trust politicians. In a way they are right to distrust mainstream science. They are biased if only indirectly because they have to research in areas that politicians want them to research in or what large companies want them to research in and if the research doesn't yield the results they want they stop funding it.
Dumbed down magazine science is not really science. It's entertainment.
Unfortunately for you, the modern usage of the word that implies a noncritical and unquestioning acceptance of such ideas is baseless and without merit. Science and academia are open to critical analysis, change, and reinterpretation.