Why America is flunking science

great point

Same shit I said, the people do majors with science are so damns stupid about it that it makes no sense. Like I said $$$ is all that's in their fucking eyes. When you in the lab and some shit blows up in your face, blame yourself for being so science illiterate.

I'm a science major. Thanks, pal. But I was lucky to go to a school that taught science from gr 3. Did you really not have chem labs in high school?

i was lucky enough to go to a great high school (education wise-not people wise :P) and had an awesome chem teacher and lab. Even so, however, a grad student I talked to from Iran said they teach organic chemistry in high school!

Really shows how far behind we are in terms of science... although I'm not sure if I would still have wanted to take the infamous o-chem in high school LOL

You mean...THIS GUY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bebSxF0rr5I

BILL, BILL, BILL, BILL!

Oh man!! I love Bill! we watched him all the time in the 4th grade. I agree with you. Hard subjects like science and math should be taught with more enthusiasm and patience.

scccciiiiieeeeence ruuuuulllllles

omg bill nye was one of my favorite shows as a kid! of course I remember him!! His influence was no doubt there... I myself am a bioengineering major ^^

I loved Bill Nye the science guy!!!

I'm in University right now, but if they rerun his shows, I would still watch them!

he had a new show on cable for a while, i guess they ran out of episodes. the beach episode was my favorite.. bill nye and beakman of "beakmans world" as well as my grandpa the physics teacher from depere, wi (who apparently knows everyone) are the ones who piqued my interest in science and learning in general.

I loved Bill Nye as a kid, and now that I am a science teacher I use his videos :)

yeah Bill Nye is great, but my personal favorite was the late Carl Sagan by far.

His giant rat rocked too! What was his name?
Mythbusters are my new favorite TV scientists.

"DID YOU KNOW THAT:

Some germs are good for you, or even delicious? There are more germs on Earth than all other living things combined? Your body is constantly fighting germs, even when you aren't sick?

NOW YOU KNOW!"

Bill Nye is awesome.

The government should force Bill out of retirement.

Uni you keep beating me to the punch..I was preparing to post essentially the same ideas..my hat is off to you, yet again

great minds think alike :)

i absolutely agree. there is no denying this conclusion.

Why do you have to drag the Bible into this?

Also there is plenty of ground to deny the theory of evolution as a explaination for human existance without even getting into the Bible.

^ ..... Wow... Change your name to "gfletcher0913: Why America is flunking science"

@gfletcher

It's because the Christian version of creationism is really the main reason why Americans aren't accepting evolution (even if it's not specifically your reason), however I would like to know if your version has anything to do with intelligent design? If it does, it requires a designer. It might not necessarily be the Christian God, but here in America, that's who most of the intelligent design advocates are - Christians (not that I think all Christians reject evolution). Invoking the bible or some other supernatural force, or being, or magic of some sort is essentially the same thing in that they are equally unscientific.

Statistics show that the more religious a country tends to be, the less likely they are to accept evolution. Some survey a few years back placed the US 32nd out of the 33 countries surveyed in acceptance of evolution. The only country that trailed us was Turkey.

If you are not talking about intelligent design / creationism, then I'm curious what you are talking about... If you wouldn't mind elaborating. I'm not asking you to prove it. I'm just asking what it is.

The damage to the educational system is decades old, going back the 1960s.
While evolution is a theory and global warming morphed into climate change does not make them un-worthy of rational discussion. Rather, these are presented as irrefutable fact, which they are not.
As such, the people who indoctrinate on these topics are new high priests in a new-age religion. Funny how people who dis-believe global warming or evolution are treated like the non-believers of Islam. Perhaps the people who are afraid of discussing such topics should be called the climate change jihadis or evolution mullahs.

the last time i heard its because there are way too many stupid liberal teachers who don't know shit but got he teaching job because of a threat of a lawsuit..promoting mind numbing liberal bullshit using the liberal media..

I guess its genius to conjure up the idea that you can smoke weed and go to MIT...to get this idea that the greatest scientific minds were left winged liberal minded people is just ludicrous..science needs discipline..responsibility and reluctance..things morons like.........*oops sorry I dont want you running to the admin people like a little bitch and demanding I be punished **......................I mean intelligent people like you should know that already

@GnL your lashing out at liberals as the source of all of our problems is laughable and shows how narrow minded you are. I would wager that, Rush Limbaugh fans aside, most people who read comments like this from you just dismiss you as a troll, and you certainly seem to be little more than that. You just can't be taken seriously when you talk crazy like that. Sorry.

Here's some info just to show that you are talking out your rear.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141264/most_scientists_politically_liberal_(reality_must_have_a_liberal_bias)/