"But it is precisely such firmly entrenched orthodoxies that most cry out for challenges. …all scientific ideas should be open to criticism and that broad acceptance of a theory is no guarantee of its truth seems even more valuable than conveying the details of any particular theory."
Just today at the watershed council meeting, I had to exhort a state official to read the science reports and question them, rather than blindly trusting that the scientists even have a clue. Then I came home and read this piece by Gene Callahan and knew that i had hit the nail on the head.
December 20, 2005
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