Along with creeping socialism and Islamic jihad, one of the great dangers facing our culture is the advance of the anti-science “woo”: So-called “alternative” medicine, cultish beliefs in “detoxification”, anti-vaccine activism and all manner of quackery are invading our institutions and threatening to drive true, science-based medicine out the door.
This is not merely a matter of personal preference. It is the fight between reality and wishful thinking. As John Derbyshire said, the opposite of science is not religion, it is wishful thinking. Wishful thinking can kill you. It can kill your child. And your belief in woo can kill the rest of us.
Science is the only way to know reality. Denying reality is perilous.
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