I Want To Believe

Meh. 50% of Americans believe that God created Adam and Eve 6,000 years ago. There are lots of wingnuts out there.

Everyone knows that Bigfoot uses mind-controlling technology to pilot the black helicopters and fight the lizard people.

Who do you think was on the grassy knoll? Elves?

At least 5% of the poll's respondents would pretend to believe some or all of this stupid shit just as a goof. Probably 10%.

I hope Nate Silver writes a column on this.

Also...

Do you believe the Bush administration intentionally misled the public about the
possibility of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to promote the Iraq War, or not?
Do ............. 44%
Do not ...... 45%
Not sure .... 12%

Why do you think they believe in Bigfoot? It is the damn mind-controlling technology and fluorides.

It's good to see that people who believe George W Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction are now equated with those who believe in Bigfoot or Lizard people. God bless the USA!

Unfortunately the polling institution got one thing wrong: contrails are neither "sinister chemicals" sprayed by the government nor are they, as the pollsters assert, exhaust. It's a trail of water vapor caused by pressure at the planes' wingtips.

Or so the aerodynamic engineers would have you believe...

@2 - "There are a lot of wing nuts out there"

Case in point.

In a country where roughly half believe that the Bible is a literally true scientific and historical document, I find a lot of those numbers in the single digits and teens downright heartening.

How many believe the ocean will rise 3 meters in a century?

No Mothman question? FUCK YOU GUYS AND YOUR LAME- ASS SURVEY.

Bigfoot is an alien robot.
Constructed by Obama, the Antichrist.

Boston with 3 m sea level rise:

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-photos/map-bos…

@11 wingtip vortices are contrails, at least according to the internets. But yeah, can be engine exhaust too. So I'm stoopit. Remember: PV=nRT.

Not the fifteen percent with the highest I.Q.

Bigfoot is our last line of defense against the Lizard People (and a lonely, thankless job it is).

15% of the population *are* Bigfoot. Live in the mountains, communicate by grunting, don't believe in contraception. Oh, and copious body hair.

This seems fitting

From this one can also conclude that roughly 15% of U.S. voters are dumber than a railroad car full of gravel.

In my time on this earth, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that 15% of the people out there are batshit crazy. Line up 20 random people and three of them will be freaking nuts.

That's just the number I've come to after a lifetime of dealing with the public.

Coincidentally, look at the craziest option on any poll and the number is always 15%...

One more thing...

Congress' approval rate always seems to hover around 15%.

Coincidence? I think not.

@21,

No, no. Like #22 says, 15 percent are bugnuts insane. Far, far more are stupider than a bag of hammers.

It is about infinity times more likely that there is a bigfoot than that there is a god, which isn't saying much about odds, but says a lot about our society.

not to sound all tom cruise or anything, but i kinda believe that about the pharmaceutical companies inventing illnesses. i don't mean manufacturing diseases in a lab or deliberately making people sick, but identifying conditions that can be fixed by simple lifestyle alterations and calling them diseases for which they just happen to have treatments to sell you. convincing people that they "need" medication. the real money is in keeping people sick (or convincing them that they are) and treating symptoms, and big pharma preys on peoples' vulnerabilities, ignorance and laziness. i'm not against medicine, certainly not against science, but just as with the food industry, i have a deep mistrust of the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA - i'm seriously skeptical that they are actually working in the patients' best interests.

Bigfoot rocks

"don't get offended because I tell you my opinion!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8OBbQ1_…

People who see connections and meaning in everything represent the worst aspects of our culture. We need to out them as the hateful people they are at every opportunity. As we actively work to rid society of their kind we must be sure to set aside a select few to be used as detectives.