There are surveys showing that atheists often know more about the beliefs of various religions than the actual adherents of these religions. No doubt this is tr

There are surveys showing that atheists often know more about the beliefs of various religions than the actual adherents of these religions. No doubt this is true for science as well... It's hard for me to believe that anyone who doesn't doubt science actually knows all that much about science, its history, its epistemology, its current issues, etc. I think it's funny that science evangelists complain about all the anti-science folks in society, and they're completely unable to produce intellectually honest defenses of actual praxis. All these sorts of articles ever do is point to the same set of success stories or examples of irrationality among 'non-believers', as if that's some sort of intellectually coherent argument. It's ridiculous that these folks won't do an actual cost-benefit analysis of science in practice, presumably because they know the results won't be favorable them, but then browbeat people for not 'converting' based on their theory of science as it would be practiced in some sort of utopia. It's like creationism, but even more stupid. Don't get me wrong, I spend an enormous amount of time reading scientific research and my knowledge of that is probably my greatest secret weapon as a founder, but at the same time the sort of pro-science evangelism I see on the Internet makes me weep for the future of society.