"It's a demon haunted world"---Carl Sagan

It never ceases to amaze me how easily people accept advancements in science when they or a family member are dieing of cancer, aids, etc. etc., but when scientific method bring things to light that require leaps in critically thinking , the same people balk. The early scientist, Gallelao, proved the correct model of our gallexy 500 years ago, but he paid the ultimate because an overtly sceptical society was unable to belive it: 250 years ago colonists were burning people at the stake for things science could easily have explained if they were more open minded. Here we are today, the "enlighted" society, and there are still people who cling to scientific misaprehention.

I wonder if the guys that routinly scream "funding" and "agenda" driven results, where studies are concerned ever stop to think it may be that train of thought holding us back from quicker advancements in science.