According to a recent Pew poll, only 36% of Americans believe in global warming. Blogger Dave R. at Care2 lets us know that that’s even less than the number of Americans that believe in HAUNTED HOUSES. Also, apparently, according to another poll, only 39% of people in the United States believe in evolution. Fortunately though, less than 15% of Americans believe that Haunted Houses evolved from ordinary howler monkeys. Also Disturbing, more than 100% of Americans believe that Haunted Houses are the primary source of global warming (study pending).
But Americans don’t just disbelieve in the scientifically irrefutable realities of global warming and evolution, while at the same time believing that houses can be full of ghosts and that there is a place full of fire and brimstone that you go when you die, they also believe in lots of other nonsensical things.
Below is a list of the percentages of Americans that believe in surprising things:
28% of Americans believe that the movie Jaws is a documentary.
41% of Americans believe that if you step on a crack, your mother will contract syphilis
18% of Americans believe electricity is what happens when Jesus gets cranky.
24% of Americans believe that hybrid cars are part regular gasoline powered engine and part children who have been kidnapped by Japanese auto makers and turned into fuel.
59% of Americans think Jake Gyllenhaal is secretly a genie.
48% of Americans don’t sit directly on a toilet for fear that an alligator will come up through the sewer and bite them.
11% of Americans are worried they are alligators.
Comments
Bill
November 19th, 2009 - 9:16:29 AM
So a majority of people have a clue and don't buy the nonsense about Global Warming and Evolution (where are the transitional species? where are the fossils Darwin said were essential to the survival of his hypothesis? It IS NONSENSE and 100% un-SCIENTIFIC!!!) Just because a bunch of bought and blind fools shout something doesn't make it true.
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