Interesting article: Americans favor science, but less than before

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Slimebeast said:

highwaystar101 said:

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_ The public and scientists did not always see eye-to-eye. For example 87 percent of scientists believed that humans and other living things evolved naturally, compared with 32 percent of the general public (WTF at the disparity on that one!). And while 84 percent of scientists say the Earth is getting warmer because of human activities, just 49 percent of the public agreed.

Shows that sometimes scientists are actually less knowledgable about the reality than the public is.

Scientists have to exaggerate in certain situations. Exaggeration creates fear. This leads to rich people donating to scientific research.

And i agree with you on this one, human activity does have a certain part to play. Just nothing like on the scale that scientists talk about.