Since we’re on the topic of AGW (heh…), notice that this USA Today news article from this morning:

Report: 2009 was a warm year in USA

… already has 503 comments.

Many of the comments (I have not read all of them, so I can’t use the term “most”) are just regurgitations of some idiocy that the comment writer has cut and pasted (if not literally, then in their mind) from some denier site.

Without really understanding what the terms, phrases, and ideas really mean.

The advent of the computer and then the web has brought about a increase in the skills of mimicry, but I’m not convinced these tools have brought about any greater increase in scientific literacy, or any other kind of literacy.

Woe is us?