Or lack thereof.
Fox News correspondent Sarah Palin already established a shaky relationship with science by claiming the Earth was created 6,000 years ago and people and dinosaurs coexisted soon after she was elected the mayor of Wassilla, Alaksa.
Believing in creationism is one thing, but I find it terrifying that an elected official refuses to acknowledge scientific findings of the last 200 years or so. The inherent coolness of man hunting dinosaurs aside.
Next comes Sen. Michele Bachmann. Bachmann established her own personal break from science (on Earth Day no less) by saying that carbon dioxide was "naturally occurring" as well as "good for the earth." She went on to say that not one scientific study could prove carbon dioxide was bad for the environment.
But neither of these is anything compared to Christine O'Donell, the Republican candidate running against Democrat Chris Coons for the Senate seat in Delaware. Oh, Christine O'Donnell. Crazy, dabbling in witchcraft, Christine O'Donnell.
O'Donnell and science never really saw eye to eye. She has said that evolution is a "myth" and has posed the question, "if evolution is real why can't we see monkeys evolving into people today?"
She's also anti-condom. That's not to say she's anti-premarital sex or pro-choice, she's just actively against condom use, calling them "anti-human" and saying they "will not protect you from AIDS."
But my personal favorite has to do with homosexuality. She believes that homosexuals suffer from an "identity disorder". They were created in the image of God, but their identity was adopted through societal factors making them psychologically defective.
But hey, who am I to judge? O'Donnell probably knows better than the entirety of the mental health community that removed homosexuality as a disorder from the DSM-III in 1973.
So, to review, CO2 is good for you, humankind fought with dinosaurs to assert themselves on the planet, and gays suffer from an identity disorder. Or, in summation, three of the most prominent women in the Republican Party seem to have a pretty precarious grasp on science,
What really bothers me, however, is not the complete and total disregard for facts. The question that keeps me awake at night, tossing and turning, is this: Would these women be getting any attention at all if they weren't attractive?
Putting aside their policies, politics and talking points, these are stupid human beings. They have failed to grasp simple, middle school-level scientific facts. Come on, I thought we were done letting the pretty, dumb girls win popularity contests back in middle school.
Science, you're 0 for 3. You best start making baby dinosaurs pronto if you hope to get people back on board.
