1/4 of us now think Apollo was Fake News?!?
Why, oh why, are we regressing in critical thinking?
“Members of Gen X and Millennials believe in growing numbers that the moon landings were faked, from 4% fifty years ago, as the landings were actually occurring, to as high as 25% in some recent surveys.” (adAstra Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Special Edition 2019)
P.S. from a survey of American adults 15 years ago:
• 33% believe in communication with the dead
• 39% believe astrology is scientific
• 46% deny that human beings evolved
• 49% don’t know that it takes a year for the Earth to orbit the sun
• 67% don’t know what a molecule is
(from Posner’s “Catastophe” book that we used in a class I co-taught at Stanford Law School http://jurvetson.blogspot.com/2004/10/spooks-and-goblins.html )
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