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Science

Here is a thirteen-question quiz designed to rank your bare-minimum science understanding. Take it and then shudder in shock at the test results among Americans.

Then it becomes clear how something like this can even be a thing.

I mean, really, Congress? You want the National Science Foundation to fund no research unless it strikes you as "groundbreaking"? Hell, I have a 30-year-old degree in French, FFS, and even I understand science better than that.