If Erasmus Desiderius could talk about the current state of affairs, he would say that the secular scientific civilization is governed by the Goddess of stupidity.
Our celebrated democratic institutions tackle the issue of hazardous science with a deafening silence. There is no such issue!
Scientists seem to say something like this:The value of science is beyond question. That means that we have to minimize its catastrophic dangers. They somehow overlook another logical option: The value of science is irrelevant, since the dangers are far too great.
Scientific communities persistently overlooked an elementary weakness:If scientific reasoning is at issue, it cannot decide this issue.
I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth:Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.