Perhaps humanity as a whole has not come as far as we think from the days of Genghis Khan and the inquisitions of the Catholic Church and witch doctors and shamans.
Does the sun revolve around the Earth? One in every three Russians thinks so, a spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday.
In a survey released this week, 32 percent of Russians believed the Earth was the center of the Solar system; 55 percent that all radioactivity is man-made; and 29 percent that the first humans lived when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.
The study also found that women were more likely than men to believe the scientific fallacies.
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