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> Steven Schimmrich wrote:
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>> Perhaps people who DO scientific research should decide
>> such questions and not accountants, barbers, and plumbers -- many of
>> whom
>> will tell you they dislike science.
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> Your elitism is showing. Perhaps accountants, barbers and plumbers do
> not know enough to make informed decisions about textbooks, but they
> do know that they send their children off to school, and after being
> processed by the university they get them back as agnostics or
> atheists, and they don't like it, and science gets a large share of
> the blame. How do you suggest we fix that?