Michael Specter gives a talk at TED2010.
~Southern Fried Science
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Specter speaks like an outsider (which maybe he is, as a journalist) who is enamored with science but doesn’t really understand how the sausage is made.
He also makes a lot of value laden statements about what is horrible, wonderful, or what we should be ashamed of. There’s nothing wrong with those judgments, but they don’t come from science.
I don’t disagree with much of what he says, but his unbridled confidence seems naive.