No More Science, Please. I’ve Already Made Up My Mind.

We live in a society saturated by science, and every year we hear alarming reports that unless we educate more scientists, America will lose its position as number 1 in research and technology (some experts believe we’ve slid out of first place already).  Yet it’s not often observed that people suffer from “science shock,” a numbness to the flood of data that assaults us almost as if it’s in the air we breathe.  Haven’t you heard someone greet a new study by saying, “It doesn’t mean a thing. These studies are always contradicting each other”?  The more science rules, the greater the resistance to it.
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