On Feb 15, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> Last week on NPR--I landed there accidently, I swear--I heard some
> reporter retort a racist-Christian tirade about how Islam discourages
> (bans?) critical thinking by pointing out that that's not true because
> Muslims hold college degrees at the same rate as Christians. That was
> the only data point given for the existence of "critical thinking."
Funny. The whole point of NPR is to disarm critical thinking, isn't it? Everything about it is either narcotic or apologetic.
Doug