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Paul Offit: The Fate of Science in an Age of Darkness
Point of Inquiry
English - April 04, 2017 18:24 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality science atheism freethought humanism philosophy politics reason religion Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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While science was once the force that propelled humanity into an age of enlightenment, a pernicious fear of science and the unknown threatens to plunge society to into an age of darkness. So says Dr. Paul Offit, a groundbreaking immunologist, and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Offit’s new book, Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong, comes at a time when the fundamental concepts of evidence, facts, and truth itself are being smothered by a miasma of misinformation.
Dr. Offit joins Point of Inquiry host Josh Zepps for a vital discussion about the prognosis for science under the Trump administration, the dangers of the anti-vaccination movement, the probability of future pandemics, and much more.