26% of Americans think Holmes was right

[solar penguin]

"It turns out 26 percent of us in America think the sun is moving around
the Earth, and we're just rooted in place here on Earth watching it sweep
across the sky, a recent public survey using the NSF science-literacy
test found. Never mind those silly scientists telling us otherwise. A
quarter of us can see the sun moving. We're not moving. The sun is."

http://www.livescience.com/43593-americans-ignorant-about-science.html

[Beli]

In article <leetau$o9n$1...@dont-email.me>, solar penguin

The 'Untergang des Abendlandes' begins in the US of A.

[Peter Percival]

What has that got to do with Holmes?

--
Do, as a concession to my poor wits, Lord Darlington, just explain
to me what you really mean.
I think I had better not, Duchess. Nowadays to be intelligible is
to be found out. -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

[colone...@yahoo.com]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Peter Percival wrote:

> solar penguin wrote:
>> "It turns out 26 percent of us in America think the sun is moving
>> around the Earth, and we're just rooted in place here on Earth
>> watching it sweep across the sky, a recent public survey using the
>> NSF science-literacy test found. Never mind those silly scientists
>> telling us otherwise. A quarter of us can see the sun moving. We're
>> not moving. The sun is."
>>
>

> What has that got to do with Holmes?

P'haps you've not read every single word of Holmes?:

'His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary
literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.
Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he
might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when
I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of
the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in
this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round
the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could
hardly realize it.

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of
surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."'

3ch

[Peter Percival]

colone...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Peter Percival wrote:
>
>> solar penguin wrote:
>>> "It turns out 26 percent of us in America think the sun is
>>> moving around the Earth, and we're just rooted in place here on
>>> Earth watching it sweep across the sky, a recent public survey
>>> using the NSF science-literacy test found. Never mind those silly
>>> scientists telling us otherwise. A quarter of us can see the sun
>>> moving. We're not moving. The sun is."
>>>
>>
>> What has that got to do with Holmes?
>
> P'haps you've not read every single word of Holmes?:

Thank you for enlightening me!

> 'His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary
> literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to
> nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest
> way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a
> climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of
> the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
> That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not
> be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me
> such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
>
> "You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of
> surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."'
>
> 3ch

[Peter Percival]

Thank you. I can well understand that 26% of Americans (or any other
group of people) think that way. The evidence of ones senses is quite
compelling.