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haberman on Nov 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Delegative Democracy – a scalable voting model

> I want our collective ignorance to shine

Ok, I present to you:

Anti-vax: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/21/4767530/vaccine-deniers-i...

Climate change denial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial

Anti-GMO: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

Creation Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science

> so we can confront it head-on as the destructive force that it is.

That hasn't been working so well...

patcon on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

I find none of those overly concerning in practice, at least not to the degree that they reflect poorly on delegative democracy.

- http://www.gallup.com/poll/168620/one-four-solidly-skeptical...

- http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/...

- http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intel...

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