CDC wasn't prepared for Ebola that is clear. At the same time despite everything Ebola isn't a big risk to the U.S. One person with Ebola getting into the country isn't the danger. It's not going to go past health workers especially with the amount of screening and tracing going on of health workers treating Ebola patients. The real risk is that Ebola spreads across Africa and in large numbers where it creates a panic and people start fleeing the country. Then the virus will be all over the world and could cause a global recession.
Funny but sad.. http://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...cial&utm_medium=facebook&mbid=social_facebook Some Fear Ebola Outbreak Could Make Nation Turn to Science By Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—There is a deep-seated fear among some Americans that an Ebola outbreak could make the country turn to science. In interviews conducted across the nation, leading anti-science activists expressed their concern that the American people, wracked with anxiety over the possible spread of the virus, might desperately look to science to save the day. “It’s a very human reaction,” said Harland Dorrinson, a prominent anti-science activist from Springfield, Missouri. “If you put them under enough stress, perfectly rational people will panic and start believing in science.” Additionally, he worries about a “slippery slope” situation, “in which a belief in science leads to a belief in math, which in turn fosters a dangerous dependence on facts.” At the end of the day, though, Dorrinson hopes that such a doomsday scenario will not come to pass. “Time and time again through history, Americans have been exposed to science and refused to accept it,” he said. “I pray that this time will be no different.”
I thought it was weak. People screaming for science or demanding if people believe in evolution are often those who have no scientific education, training or experience. Like this writer for example.
I thought it was satire targeting people screaming for religion and demanding creationism be taught in schools.
oops. I have scientific education, training and experience and avoided literature at all costs. Plus, I'm not that smart.
So are those refusing to believe it, ultimately the point of the article is that science garners less interest and attention than other topics. I honestly didn't infer anything in there about evolution. Incidentally, understanding that human life did not come about through some misogynistic play-dough session doesn't require post-graduate work in Biochemistry, you just have to recognize literary sensationalism, narrow political and cultural motives and crappy moral subtext when you see it.
Well I was completely wrong (in the characterization of the article) on my post you quoted but I will defend it. There was nothing there on evolution, I just hear it from people demanding if someone believes in it so I brought it up. From what I understand, most modern christian congregations are not proclaiming the world is 5k years old or that Genesis is to be taken literally.
