General Discussion

It looks to me like most people misunderstand science as an intellectual tool and branch of knowledge. They think you can just ask science whether your particular political idea is right or wrong. Then, though science usually gives them no answer, they misstate, ignore, and misrepresent what it does say. It gets bruised and sullied in the resulting intermob fracases. It loses credibility.

The right thinks that science upends religion by saying we're all monkeys. The left thinks that science upends equality by saying, for example, men were the primary hunters among primitive humans.

SMH. Science is such a great thing. It's being pawed to death by mass mediocrity.