[Rebel_Ace]

Inflammatory and misleading title and rhetoric. The use of the word "stupid" is what is meant to grab the reader, and the author mis-uses the word repeatedly.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the principle meanings of the word "stupid" are:

(1) not intelligent : having or showing a lack of ability to learn and understand things
(2) not sensible or logical
(3) not able to think normally because you are drunk, tired, etc.

So, if a group of people are fundamentally incapable of learning or understanding things, science is not going to be of much help to them. Clearly, science is NOT for "stupid" people.

Now, of course, I get the author's intent, which is to say, "Science is for people who wish to understand things that they currently do not know, Science is NOT for people who believe that they already know everything with certainty."

Of course, it is not as attention grabbing to write:

"Science is for uninformed people seeking knowledge"

I just have a pet peeve about distorting the meaning of words.

[GeronL]

*face palm*

His point is....

From the leftist viewpoint and attitude, they are the intelligent ones and everyone else is stupid. They have to be stupid to think they are so intelligent that they cannot be wrong. Only a stupid person thinks that way.

True Intelligent people know their limits and know there is a lot they do not know. But these are the people that the self-annointed elites think are stupid.