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115. Um, kiddie...China is NOT a Luddite country. It's become the world leader in science, since in the US abrogated...

...that status deliberately because there are so many happy and proud ignoramuses who regard science as a "waste of time."

I would submit that sticking one's head in the sand and whining that one is not interested in scientific points represents part of the reason that American Science is collapsing as the United States collapses.

I often note the contempt for science exhibited here at DU, which is depressing of course, but a reflection of why the United States is in decline. If liberals hold science in contempt with nearly with the same intensity as the right wing, there really isn't much hope.

In the scientific journals I read, most from the American Chemical Society, in which I am a 40 year member, and I read a lot of them, ten or fifteen years ago maybe 10% or 20% had authors either with Chinese names or working in Chinese institutions.

In the current issue of Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 60, Issue 18, 37 of the 47 papers have authors with clearly Chinese names.

Maybe there are some racists around here who wish to denigrate China and Chinese science and scientists, but I'm not among them.

If one wishes to know about what is and is not characterized by being a "luddite" one might try opening a science book or a scientific journal. However, if one is too lazy to open a science book or to acknowledge scientific discussions because they're a "waste of time" and one wants to know why the United States is rapid decline, a mirror would be an excellent tool for doing so.

If, in high schools, we required people to state the 2nd law of thermodynamics in simplified form, "storing energy wastes energy" in order to graduate, we wouldn't be cheering for the destruction of the planetary atmosphere because we can't fucking understand what kind of device a battery is.

Have a nice day tomorrow.