Always prattling on about “following the science” makes people sound like communists, nazis, or egalitarians.
Our founders did not leave us a government of science.
“It doesn’t offer virtue or certainty.”
You’d never guess that from the pronouncements of the MSM Learned Commentators, nor the Late Night Snidely Whiplashes of Liberalism.
After all, “The Science is Settled!” tm
I like most of Greenfield’s writings, but beg to differ. The proponents of “Science” in today’s popular culture fairly scream of the Virtue and Certainty of ‘Science’.
http://bostonreview.net/steven-shapin-scientism-virtue
“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
So, Science Guru Sagan was Certain that there can be no Certainty?
Of course, by now, he knows just how wrong he was.