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]