Science Illiteracy in the United States

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The pandemic has made a few things much clearer. And one of them is just how little the average American knows about science.

I actually had somebody on Facebook, whom I won’t name and shame, refer to COVID as a “viral bacteria.”

People don’t understand the scientific method. They don’t grasp the difference between absence of evidence and evidence of absence. They want…