Matthew Sheffield on Nostr: The United States has the industrial and educational institutions of an advanced ...

The United States has the industrial and educational institutions of an advanced industrial economy, but it has an abnormally large population of religious and market fundamentalists who hate empiricism and scientific thinking.

American Christians are much less likely to believe that humans evolved than Christians in other industrialized nations. They've become dangerously radicalized because they know they've lost intellectually.

Graph source: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/12/10/biotechnology-research-viewed-with-caution-globally-but-most-support-gene-editing-for-babies-to-treat-disease/