IS IT AUDACIOUS OR FOOLHARDY FOR SOMEONE RAISED on Erector Sets and soldering kits, who still tinkers with arduinos and who writes code for money, to take a stance against science? Am I going to sit here and eat of the fruits of science while ungratefully pointing out that the roots are rotten? Yes I am, and I’m going to shudder to my core as I make common cause, if briefly, with anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers; however wrong they are, their noses are keen to the stench of science. The word itself has become a kind of rejoinder lately, often as the object in a newly beknighted grammatical construction: “because science.”
“Do you know why we are able to land a spacecraft on a comet?”
“Because science, that’s why.”