The study also demonstrated that a total of 42 per cent of Americans thought astrology was either "very scientific" or "sort of scientific".
About a third of Americans also think UFOs are real, and a similar percentage believes that astrology is "very scientific" or "sort of scientific".
This galling statistic holds true despite the fact that recruiting has become more scientific--sort of.
The influential columnist HL Mencken declared: "It reveals, in cold-blooded, scientific terms, the sort of lives millions of Americans are leading".
Roediger writes that, in America, "scientific racism" — the sort of grand theorizing that Painter chronicles — emerged "in the context of the pro-slavery argument and as a response to abolitionism".
The Lynds' close-up account of a class-stratified industrial community was enormously successful — even the curmudgeonly H. L. Mencken said, "It reveals, in coldblooded, scientific terms, the sort of lives millions of Americans are leading".
To make this startling discovery, Douglas Daly of the New York Botanical Garden and his Malagasy colleague Jeannie Raharimampionona hiked through rainforests for months in 2006 and then toiled in scientific collections to sort out all of the species.
Roediger writes that, in America, "scientific racism"—the sort of grand theorizing that Painter chronicles emerged "in the context of the pro-slavery argument and as a response to abolitionism".
When they find themselves on display in an unfair and unflattering way, scientists should take a deep breath, calm down, sort scientific arguments from personal attacks, and calculate an appropriate response or just let it go.
Female bodies, especially those outside of a very narrow construction of thin, white, young and unmarred, seem to fill the role that we once reserved for "freaks" or the physically different, where they are made to serve as a some sort scientific or moral warning.
