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A LIBDEM MP has called for less brainy colleagues to go on a course so that we can be less stupid. I know! Who would have expected a LibDem to be condescending? With inter-personal skills like that, he’ll be leader of his party in no time. Not Julian Huppert Ignorance of science is, of course, a worrying fact, and not just among our legislators. While Tweeting about Julian Huppert’s comments last night, I said that he would regret his comments “as sure as the sun goes round the earth”. Instead of getting the joke, some Twitter followers were anxious to know why he would “regret” his comments and if I was threatening him… Then someone sent me a link to this story which, depressingly, claims that 20 per cent of Americans still think the sun actually does orbit the earth. Now, I’m not one to hop onto the anti-American snobbishness of the smug chattering...