Understanding is a delaying tactic. - Michael Crichton

Whether you see the world as emergent or, deteriorating. We have long known that some people favor innovation and look positively toward the future while others are frightened of change and want to halt innovation.

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.

The examples can be multiplied endlessly. Jenner and smallpox, Pasteur and germ theory. Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therapy. The list of consensus errors goes on and on.