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Thank you for posting this. It's so refreshing to read a post that's so well-worded and thought out, and even backed up with references. I guess it doesn't hurt that I agree with your viewpoint, either, right? :-)
How ironic that I found this post today. I am almost through Alan Alda's second book, Things Overheard While Talking To Myself, in which he discusses various talks he's given over the years to graduating classes and the like. He gave a commencement speech to the Cal Tech graduates shortly after playing Richard Feynman in his self-written play QED (another physics genius my husband greatly admires), and he basically said the same thing as you in regards to the decline of science literacy here in the U.S. He sounds just as appalled by it as you. I, too, have noticed the same thing in recent years (mainly because my husband is a HUGE physics buff, and takes great steps to incorporate science and the scientific process into...
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