Tag: progress
Bright Idea: Put Scientists in Charge Instead?
Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians?
Berlinski: Evolution Toward Virtue and Progress?
The Nazi Party, says David Berlinski, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.”
Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
Dr. King was sharply critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke forcefully against the idea that humans are the products of a blind material process.
Second Thought About the Idea of “Consensus”
Sometimes scientists do not, in fact, follow the evidence. The consensus, then, could be wrong.