The Importance of Objective Truth in Science and Technology in the 21st Century

The pursuit of objective truth is really the lynch pin for rationality, professor pinker says. And if you so tolose your desire to to seek objective truth, it's a sign that things are not going as well as we'd like them to be. "Even if you're a pessimist over the short term, when looking at their messiness, you can be an optimist over the long term," he adds.