Zeitgeist of the US


	Zeitgeist of the US

AtlLiberal

11-13-2008 1:11 PM

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AtlLiberal says:

Clipped is the preamble to a very short article explaining what is meant by anti-science and some of the ramifications of it. Since there is an undercurrent in the US that is anti-science I thought this would be a nice introduction to this topic.

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11-13-2008 6:50 PM

balthazarus

nice and important. 10x

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