re: #38 palomino

Truly sad. The only “developed” country more ignorant of basic scientific facts, and apparently more slavish to religion, is Turkey. Turkey, for fucks sake.

One more indicator of quality of life and modernity that unfortunately shows the US behind the rest of the West. And that doesn’t just mean western Europe; in many many ways we’re behind Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and plenty others.

I’m curious if anyone has any ideas on why the US is so far behind many other countries. Personally, I’m baffled. I also wonder about state-by-state or region-by-region breakdowns, within the US.

This is the country that put people on the Moon, and won the Cold War?