"Trust the science" is the most unscientific statement ever. Questioning science is how you do science!"If you are just interested in being an authority on everything, become a journalist. The thing that has always amazed me is that you are the only people who know how to run the country and you have all decided to go into journalism. Why couldn't some of you have gone into politics instead?" Former Treasurer Peter Costello on his last press conference announcing his retirement from politics, Oct 2009.
Do you all remember, before the Internet, people thought that the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information. Yeah. It wasn't that.