A great lecture from Michael Specter about the danger of denying science in the face of overwhelming evidence. He is especially moving when talking about the plight of Africa. High-Tech Colonialism isn’t a term I had heard before but our insistence against genetically modified foods and vaccination really is a new form of colonialism.
When you start down the road where belief in magic replaces the evidence of science, you in end up in a place you don’t want to be.
[hattip: BoingBoing]