“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience & superstition,

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

All our science, Measured against reality Is primitive And childlike. And yet It is the most precious thing we have. - Albert Einstein