Here’s information (not alternate fact) for those who watch ‘Panda Cam’ even when the pandas are asleep.

The National Science Foundation conducts a survey of more than 2,200 people in the United States. The survey, done every two years, tests the public’s knowledge of basic facts in the physical and biological sciences. It’s called the Survey of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology.

This is not like the survey you receive when asked to donate to a charity or a political party. They usually take the check from the envelope and throw everything else away.

Those surveys are almost never read except at the holiday party when the CEO runs out of material and wants staff to enjoy hearing how America thinks.

The answers can also be sold to a media content provider and turned into a new reality show called ‘Huh???’

The survey is closely coordinated with surveys in several other countries in order to facilitate international comparisons, which shows the gap of what we think of ourselves (and the actual truth)

One of the questions is “Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?”

Let’s go back to a simpler time in our lives when the words ‘Honey’ and ‘Boo Boo’ were separate, and ponder this: dawn sees the Sun rising over the horizon in the East, arcing across the sky, and through the course of an Earth day, slowly sinking into the west. One could assume, if they were living under a rock and had never had a thought process that went deeper than wondering if ZZ Top always had beards, that the sun orbits the earth.

This, despite incontrovertible, unquestionable, indisputable, unassailable, undeniable scientific proof it DOESN’T!!!

But based on the NSF survey, a quarter of all Americans don’t get it. They truly think that the sun orbits around the Earth. This is why they believe the rhetoric of a misanthropic, pathological liar who said he was going to drain the swamp of Washington insiders, said he was going to donate his salary, said Mexico was going to pay for the wall, going to divest from his businesses, release his tax returns, wasn’t going to go on vacation or play golf, was going to use American steel to build these dangerous pipelines, said would defeat ISIS in 30 days, said he was going to appropriate money to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, said that nobody on his campaign had any communications with Russian officials, (Seven of his people have now admitted they spoke and/or met with Russian officials, after they lied and got caught) and said that the Obamacare replacement would cover more people at lower cost.

We didn’t co-exist with the dinosaurs either. Contrary to popular opinion, the ‘Flintstones’ were not based on a true story.

Please stay in school!