Henry I. Miller, a physician and fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, was the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“Exercising society’s right to ignore the ignorant”
What if “society” itself is ignorant? Apart from that, who gets to judge and deem others ignorant? Implicitly, the author puts himself in the “other than ignorant” category. How ignorant. Perhaps I should just ignore him.
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
-—Robert A. Heinlein
Problem solved.
They know so much that just isn’t so.
It’s hard to ignore the ignorant when they hold the highest offices in the land.
One problem is that Leftists define “not buying the Leftist dogma” as “ignorance”
One doesn’t have to know the science to know the odds are that introducing new bugs or new plants into an area to solve some current problem causes new and unpredicted problems.
Every once in a while I’ll resist what the scientists are telling us because I believe they are following a social engineering program that is being pushed such as Agenda 21.
Then there’s always the fact that scientists aren’t always in the know as much as they would like us to believe that they are. They have been wrong before and I’m certain they’ll be wrong again. Thankfully that doesn’t happen too frequently.