Why Science Has to Lead the Way if We are to Survive
From an early age, I have been fascinated my scientists, men and women in white lab coats working with test tubes and beakers and Bunsen burners and many colored liquids. It draws a picture in your head, doesn’t it? Well, I remember very little from my school years apart from playground antics and the science lab. I’ve been to four different schools and I can still remember the science labs in each one, I can draw you an accurate floor plan in fact. I also remember my many science teachers, chief among them my first, an Iraqi woman with wheat-field yellow colored hair, we knew her as Ms. Halaweh. In her class, I learned that science is not just fun and games, but rigor and perseverance and hard work, that labs may be inviting to the curious, but that serious matters are being decided in them through experimentation and observation. This is why science should lead our world and not dogma or belief, and neither national nor corporate interests. The great councils that meet to...