A World Without Science Understanding

Or Why Some Would Inject Disinfectant to Cure a Virus

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In the arena of science I have huge respect for Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Carl left us in 1996 at the young age of 62. In my perspective Neil has picked up where Carl left off.

Carl Sagan saw a world moving more deeply into technology that requires an ever increasing understanding of science.

Carl’s Wisdom …

• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
• We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
• The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking — it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in…