Hawk's View

We live in a society saturated by science, and every year we hear alarming reports that unless we educate more scientists, America will lose its position as number one in research and technology (some experts believe we’ve slid out of first place already). Yet it’s not often observed that people suffer from “science shock,” a numbness to the flood of data that assaults us almost as if it’s in the air we breathe. We’ve all heard someone greet a new study by saying, “It doesn’t mean a thing. These studies are always contradicting each other.” The more science rules, the greater the resistance to it.