It is in the nature of science to try to prove its hypotheses and findings wrong.
And often, hypotheses and preliminary findings are proven wrong.
But over time, scientific understanding becomes clearer.
The next time an ominous spot shows up your xray (or the xray of a loved one) you will want the best possible doctors available. And you will want them "yesterday."
You will not turn to underperforming middle schoolers for anything of great pitch and moment..
In the meantime, you can thump your chest -- monkey see monkey do -- pretending there's no difference between "opinion" and "truth."
In fact, the distinction between opinion and truth is the is the very fulcrum that separates an educated person and an uneducated person.
You can get your dander up over "the intellectual elites."
But when you REALLY need (or want) something -- sophisticated health care, a new car, a new cellphone, solar panels, a new sound system -- the ONLY people who can provide these things are people with intellectual training- and lots of it.
You know this.
And I know this.
And anyone who values truth over Trump train bullshit knows this.
It is inescapable, and inescapably true:
It is the "intellectual elites" whom you pretend to disdain, on whom you ultimately rely.
