One in two Poles believes that antibiotics kill viruses just like bacteria. Just as many are convinced that viruses are produced in government laboratories to control our freedom. Slightly fewer - that a cure for cancer exists, but is hidden from the public by commercial interests. Forty-two percent do not recognize the theory of evolution. We are not the biggest science skeptics in the EU, but that's really no consolation.
If the government needed any proof that health education is an absolute necessity and not a fad, it was provided by the results of the just-published Eurobarometer, which show that - to put it extremely mildly - we are not very educated. Not only on health issues, of course. Gaps in knowledge are elementary. Every third Pole is of the opinion that humans lived in the same times as dinosaurs, and malicious people are already commenting that such a state of knowledge does not close the way to a career, not only at the national level, but also at the European level), although the in...
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