Episode 306 - GENETIC CHINESE CHECKERS

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 8 a.m.

He said, \u201cScience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children\u2019s or grandchildren\u2019s time\u2014when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what\u2019s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.\u201d

Originally Broadcast On 1/24/2017