Skipthisone,

That might depend on the particulars…

For example, the people seem not to have been better informed by the American and British intelligence services about the existence of Iraq’s WMDs.

Smarter? What about the defunding of therapeutic cloning? What about the on-going debate about the “theories” of Evolution and Creationism?

On balance, I suspect that humans are about the same now as they ever have been since they could be called humans. What changes over time is what they hold to be true.

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