Worship of Science
The current pandemic is likely the result of science gone mad Since the onset of the Plague, Tablet magazine has been running a series of articles by Norman Doidge, a Canadian brain researcher and psychoanalyst. That series constitutes an extended meditation on the contemporary worship of Science and the failure to properly understand its limits. Doidge writes with vast erudition, intelligence, and that rarest of all qualities — wisdom. In “Mad Science, Sane Science,” Doidge contrasts the ancients’ view of science, which centered on the contemplation of the order of the cosmos ...