Somehow, despite all the key understandings that our civilization has unraveled during the last century, showing that knowledge is contextual beyond anything we might previously have imagined, people persist in the driest scientific naivety. They are ruled by a jester and a whore. Science is a very powerful method—or set of methods—for understanding the world. But real human beings, participating in all manner of everyday situations, base their worldviews and political opinions on much more than science. Simply because we damn well have to.
