Comment Re:NO! Don't link. (Score 1) 1570
I am vehemently opposed to the suppression of speech for the sake of others, uninformed or not. An uninformed but educated person will recognize the fallacies and lies for what they are. And uninformed but curious person will go a bit farther and seek out the truth. Neither of those likely represents the average uninformed person. That person is usually poorly educated and disinterested, and I don't really care about him. He's a lost cause and will spend his life being led around the nose by whomever can dupe him more convincingly (or more recently). It's really no better in my eyes if he believes the truth without understanding why or if he believes a lie without understanding why. At that point, the harm is already done. If it isn't the creationist museum it will be the local psychic or the crystal merchant or the magnetic bracelet salesman or Head-On or the latest diet or any of a million other things that prey on the uninformed every day. More power to them - P. T. Barnum would be proud.