This really blew my mind. How can Americans be so stupid?
Nanotechnology is a branch of science and engineering devoted to the design and production of materials, structures, devices and circuits at the smallest achievable scale, typically in the realm of individual atoms and molecules. The ability to engineer matter at that scale has the potential to produce a vast array of new technologies that could influence everything from computers to medicine. Already, dozens of products containing nanoscale materials or devices are on the market.
In a sample of 1,015 adult Americans, only 29.5 percent of respondents agreed that nanotechnology was morally acceptable.
Obviously, this cuts across ideological divisions since Christian fundamentalists do not make up 70 percent of the US population. It means that even many of us more "enlightened" people are prejudiced against science and technology due to our religious beliefs.
The same survey found that majority of Europeans have no problem with nanotechnology.