• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    Oh fuck off. “Cosmos” was never meant to be an ongoing series. Sagan didn’t intend for it to be more than one season. And there were two follow- up seasons with Neil deGrasse Tyson later on.

    Also, there are 51 (and counting) seasons of “NOVA.” Not all Americans are stupid.

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        Yet he’s never won the popular vote. The majority of Americans don’t like him. His backers are just good at manipulating the rubes and gaming the system.

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        This isn’t an “American” problem though

        26% of Europeans believe astrology is “very scientific” with 43% believing it is at least somewhat so.

        https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/raw-data-astrology-in-europe/

        While there is no real data on the age of the universe things you can look up, searches by country for creationism, or skepticism of evolution, show western european countries to largely be 15-40% skeptical of evolution, and eastern europe is much higher on average, but also contains the lowest skepticism of it.

        Search “skepticism of evolution in Europe by country” and you will get information - it took me several hours of reading, but it was all on that search

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        You can throw statistics upon statistics and they will mean nothing without a comparison point, control group, or null hypothesis.

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          I’m from the country I’m judging. I thought that would have been obvious.

          It’s not like I make a secret of it. I talk about being from Indiana in general and living in Terre Haute in specific all the time.

          Also, I don’t enjoy being off-putting, it just comes naturally. But it’s okay because I’m used to almost everyone hating me for being awful.

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      There’s also an endless amount of entertaining stupid shit people can do. There’s a finite amount of things you can cover about space before you get into unknown or overly theoretical territory.