Believe it or not

It's amazing isn't it that people who don't believe in the demonstrated reality of global warming, worked on by tens of thousands of scientists in all disciplines over 50 years, instead manage to believe in:

Roswell aliens
Creationism
America as a benevolent empire
More guns reducing gun violence
George Bush as a good president
Private medicine as the best health system
SUVs
Human virgin birth
Bill O'Reilly
Religion
Low taxation
Sasquatch
Fair and balanced Fox
Al Quaeda in Iraq
Gay marriage as a threat to the family
Nuclear energy
Death penalty as a crime reducer
Life after death
The superiority of men over women
James Ussher's arithmetic skills
Human management of forests
The superiority of the "white race"
Torture to find ticking bombs
The Da Vinci Code

Have I missed any?

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Comments

[Quaoar]

07:52 PM on 12/03/2007

Sasquatch and Roswell Aliens are almost believable compared with most of the list.

[veracitatus]

07:06 PM on 12/03/2007

Oh and another. Belief that economic growth (as measured by increasing period to period GDP) is a good thing. Growth in profits, growth in sales, growth in population, growth in credit. These are all the things that keep the economy buzzing. And us going to hell in a hand basket.

V.

[veracitatus]

07:04 PM on 12/03/2007

How about blind faith that technology will save our sorry butts in both the peak oil phenomenon and climate change. Don't get me wrong. I love some forms of technology (especially applied to modern nearly painless dental hygiene) but planning your future on the basis of some as yet discovered miracle energy source seems right up there with religion to me.

V.

[HeevenSteven]

05:51 PM on 12/03/2007

If scientists told us we were headed for a new ice age, and the only thing that could save us was continuing to burn all the coal and oil we can get our hands on, America would surely believe it. Why not the reverse??

[QueenMaedb]

05:05 PM on 12/03/2007

Oh, C'mon!

Everyone knows the aliens are at Area 51!

[fpie]

05:01 PM on 12/03/2007

Oh yeah. You missed Intelegent Design!

[fpie]

04:59 PM on 12/03/2007

The really fascinating thing about your list is that most of the people who believe any one of those things probably believe almost all of them.

[usna73]

04:57 PM on 12/03/2007

Wait a minute. Did you get an advance copy of the planks for the Republican nominating convention for 2008?

[Mickeleh]

04:53 PM on 12/03/2007

Here's one you missed:

The superiority of the white rice.