Last week, a friend shared articles from both Daily Kos and The Atlantic citing a recent survey by the National Science Foundation suggesting that about one quarter of the American population doesn’t know the Earth revolves around the Sun. Granted, this grabby headline may not literally mean that some fifty to seventy million fellow citizens are unaware of the heliocentric ...
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin