Talk:Scientific literacy

Scientific literacy, properly defined, means having knowledge of the basic ideas. If you are "literate" about global warming, the smoking-cancer link, the effect of minimum wage on teen employment, or the role of the placebo effect, then you can state the basic theory and recount the arguments and evidence for it and against it.

What side you choose, if any, after you demonstrate your knowledge, may or may reveal an ideological bias. It has nothing to do with literacy per se, except for those who use words like "literacy" and "ignorance" as labels that distinguish people who agree with them from people who disagree.

If you disagree with the idea that "more guns means less crime" (speaking of law-abiding citizens granted concealed carry permits in states which pass "shall issue" legislation), it could be that you are unaware of the statistics. Or it could be that your adherence to ideology trumps that faith.

Let's not call each other names. --Ed Poor ^Talk 12:55, 9 April 2010 (EDT)