question on wine ph
On Jan 20, 2:03*am, wrote:
> A nation of dunces? It is my opinion we don't don't have enough dunces
> or at least people that can put concepts in laymens terms.
>
> On Jan 19, 3:48*pm, Wildbilly > wrote:
>
> > In article
> > >,
>
> > wrote:
> > > 30 years? Maybe your stuck in a time warp. Actually, I don't care how
> > > much time you've spent in the industry, from reading some of your
> > > posts your ideas border on the absurd when it comes to amateur
> > > winemaking. Professionals built the Titanic and amateurs built the
> > > Arc. I
>
> > Hey, Stoopid, listen up.
>
> > . . . the third and final factor behind the new American dumbness: not
> > lack of knowledge per se but arrogance about that lack of knowledge. The
> > problem is not just the things we do not know (consider the one in five
> > American adults who, according to the National Science Foundation,
> > thinks the sun revolves around the Earth); it's the alarming number of
> > Americans who have smugly concluded that they do not need to know such
> > things in the first place. Call this anti-rationalism -- a syndrome that
> > is particularly dangerous to our public institutions and discourse. Not
> > knowing a foreign language or the location of an important country is a
> > manifestation of ignorance; denying that such knowledge matters is pure
> > anti-rationalism. The toxic brew of anti-rationalism and ignorance hurts
> > discussions of U.S. public policy on topics from health care to taxation.
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