# Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 21, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-intellectualism-inhibits-learning/420014 "2007-09-21T18:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![coberst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@coberst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coberst)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-intellectualism-inhibits-learning/420014/121 "2007-10-01T10:59:35Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] :dubious: Even the most scientifically minded people are not proposing solving human relation problems with science, science can only help, it is not a panacea. > **[Richard Dawkins | Speaker | TED](https://www.ted.com/speakers/richard_dawkins)** - Richard Dawkins - “On our “queer” universe”. It could, but the evidence so far is that science and technology are also working to prevent disasters like preventing the starvation of millions and contributing to world peace. > **[Norman Borlaug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug)** > > Norman Ernest Borlaug (/ˈbɔːrlɔːɡ/; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal, one of only seven people to have received all three awards.ForMemRS (1987) Borlaug received his B.S. in forestry in 1... [/QUOTE] ‘The single most effective weapon against our deployed forces’ By Rick Atkinson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 30, 2007; Page A01 “We all drank the Kool-Aid,” said a retired Army officer who worked on counter-IED issues for three years. “We believed, and Congress was guilty as well, that because the United States was the technology powerhouse, the solution to this problem would come from science. That attitude was ‘All we have to do is throw technology at it and the problem will go away.’ . . . The day we lose a war it will be to guys with spears and loincloths, because they’re not tied to technology. And we’re kind of close to being there.” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-intellectualism-inhibits-learning/420014/122 "2007-10-01T16:12:57Z")
[QUOTE=coberst] ‘The single most effective weapon against our deployed forces’ By Rick Atkinson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 30, 2007; Page A01 “We all drank the Kool-Aid,” said a retired Army officer who worked on counter-IED issues for three years. “We believed, and Congress was guilty as well, that because the United States was the technology powerhouse, the solution to this problem would come from science. That attitude was ‘All we have to do is throw technology at it and the problem will go away.’ . . . The day we lose a war it will be to guys with spears and loincloths, because they’re not tied to technology. And we’re kind of close to being there.” [/QUOTE] I think they should force these guys to read Christopher Anvil (Pandora’s Planet) and Eric Frank Russell at West Point. For those of you not up on 1950s Astounding SF stories, these guys wrote about technically advanced aliens getting beat by relatively primitive humans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-intellectualism-inhibits-learning/420014.md?page=6)