Are Dostoyovskys Brothers Really Brothers Named Karamazov in Nineteenth Century Russia?

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LZ Granderson: Why should we be good to other people if we don't have to? And that's a huge, important question. He says evolutionary biologists bent over backwards to explain away the evidence of altruism because it didn't fit with their theories. LZ: Many things are about meaning - they're about the meaning of life or the meaning that we find in our s.

In this interview, based on her landmark book, Why Trust Science?, historian of science Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength — and the greatest reason we can trust it. Drawing vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong, Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy.