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I understood you perfectly the first time.Ok, I was a bit unclear. Let me explain again.
Some people here don't get it when Shel90, a scholar of modern deaf education, try to explain how ASL and english skills are connected in deaf ed. It's perhaps not totally accurate, but I will label those who disagree with Shel09 as "oralist" for simplificy. Proof supporting what Shel90 is saying here, have been pulled up houndreds of times, perhaps thousands, on alldeaf. Still oralists here claim this is false, because they see and belive something else. Research on deaf ed is getting more correlative for each year, pointing in the direction that Shel90 is explaining here.
We see the same thing happening when climate researchers try to explain the average american that they got evidence, and 90 percent of researchers agree with each other, showing human activities are the reason the climate is changing. Still, less than half of the americans belive this to be true, no matter how many pages of proof researchers pull up.
Oralist refusing to listen to bilingual research is a typical problem in science, showing the challenge of informing average joe about findings in science. Sciences of medicine, physics, religion, psychology, health etc etc battle with the same challenges.
Your statement, "Could be interesting with a survey checking if oralists are more prone to belive in creationism and oppose climate changes than those who favor real bilingual education" is irrelevant to this topic.
I believe in Creationism but I'm no oralist. I've been a long-time supporter of ASL. I've also read posts from strong CI/oralist supporters who are strong evolutionists. There is no connection.
The only conclusion I drew from your post was that you have a beef with oralists, Creationists, and climate change skeptics, so you tried to kill three birds with one stone.