
089 - Connections - James Burke
You Are Not So Smart
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How to Make Better Use of Scientific Knowledge
Scientific knowledge is hard to take because it removes the reassuring crutches of opinion, ideology and leaves only what is demonstrably true about the world. Burke said all of that in 1978 and this notion has been one of his pursuits ever since. And by help towards that knowledge, I don't mean give everybody a computer and say help yourself. Where would you even start? Now, I mean trying to find ways to translate the knowledge, to teach us, to ask the right questions. This stuff's easier to take isn't it? Understandable. Got people in it.
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