@critter1982: Are you fucking kidding? Science is “the greatest problem facing the world today”?
Science is a tool for answering questions. Kind of like guns, or baseball bats, or pencils, this tool can be applied really fucking poorly. That’s not inherent to science. That’s an artifact of the way it’s used.
Yes, people have died as a consequence of new technologies that have been uncovered. But you know what else science has been used to accomplish?
EVERY SINGLE MEDICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENT EVER IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY.
Have you ever taken an aspirin? Thank science. Driven a car? Thank science. Have you or anyone you care about ever had surgery, had chemotherapy, taken insulin, washed their hands, eaten food from the grocery store, not died of diphtheria, not died of tuberculosis, not died of typhus, not died of malaria, or lived past 35?
And all those “worldly problems” you mentioned—what’s going to solve them? Wishful thinking? Aliens? Luck? Chance? Asking nicely? Oh, hey, how about…..SCIENCE?