There Is Always A Cause For Fear.

Increasingly, People Perceive No Difference Between The Narcissistic Self-serving Reporters Asking Questions, And The Narcissistic Self-serving Politicians Who Evade Them.

Science Is Nothing More Than A Method Of Inquiry. The Method Says An Assertion Is Valid - And Will Be Universally Accepted - Only If It Can Be Reproduced By Others, And Thereby Independently Verified. The Impersonal Rigor Of The Method Has Produced Enormously Powerful Results For 400 Years. The Scientific Method Is Utterly Apolitical. A Truth In Science Is Verifiable Whether You Are Black Or White, Male Or Female, Old Or Young. It’s Verifiable Whether You Know The Experimenter, Or Whether You Don’t.

It Is Especially Difficult For Modern People To Conceive That Our Modern, Scientific Age Might Not Be An Improvement Over The Prescientific Period.

It's Hard To Decide Who's Truly Brilliant; It's Easier To See Who's Driven, Which In The Long Run May Be More Important.

The Academic World Was Marching Toward Ever More Specialized Knowledge, Expressed In Ever More Dense Jargon.