And Entertainment Has Nothing To

The Greatest Challenge Facing Mankind Is The Challenge Of Distinguishing Reality From Fantasy, Truth From Propaganda. Perceiving The Truth Has Always Been A Challenge To Mankind, But In The Information Age (or As I Think Of It, The Disinformation Age) It Takes On A Special Urgency And Importance.

Power Is Neither Male Or Female.

The Second Reason To Abandon Environmental Religion Is More Pressing. Religions Think They Know It All, But The Unhappy Truth Of The Environment Is That We Are Dealing With Incredibly Complex, Evolving Systems, And We Usually Are Not Certain How Best To Proceed. Those Who Are Certain Are Demonstrating Their Personality Type, Or Their Belief System, Not The State Of Their Knowledge.

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

The Work Of Science Has Nothing Whatever To Do With Consensus. Consensus Is The Business Of Politics. Science, On The Contrary, Requires Only One Investigator Who Happens To Be Right, Which Means That He Or She Has Results That Are Verifiable By Reference To The Real World. In Science Consensus Is Irrelevant. What Is Relevant Is Reproducible Results. The Greatest Scientists In History Are Great Precisely Because They Broke With The Consensus.